The purpose of the symposium was to stimulate improvement of worldwide geometric design through presentations, discussions, and exhibits on the latest research, policies, and practices for street and highway geometric design. The compendium contains the 85 country reports and technical papers presented at the symposium. Symposium authors represent 28 countries. The compendium table of contents reflects the plenary, podium, and poster sessions into which the symposium was organized. The country reports and technical papers were selected through a two-stage review process that included peer review. These are the headings that appear in the table of contents: Opening Plenary Session; Podium Session 1--Rural Design for Speed Management; Podium Session 2--Design Visualization; Podium Session 3--Urban Design Issues; Podium Session 4--2+1 Roads; Podium Session 5--Roundabouts; Podium Session 6--Freeway and Interchange Design Issues; Podium Session 7--Rural Design and Safety; Podium Session 8--Intersection Design and Safety; Podium Session 9--Freeway and Interchange Design Policy; Poster Session--Rural Design Issues, Urban Design Issues, Traffic Calming and Context Sensitive Design, Intersection Design Issues, and Horizontal and Vertical Alignment Design; Podium Session 10--Cross Section Design and Safety; Podium Session 11--Safety in Design Policy; Podium Session 12--Horizontal Curve Design; Podium Session 13--Design Consistency; Podium Session 14--Sight Distance; and Podium Session 15--Intersection Design and Operations. (Author/publisher) For abstracts of the papers presented see C 39153 - C 39213.
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