TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2471 consists of 26 papers covering the following topics relating to low volume roads: Automated extraction of horizontal curve information for low-volume roads; Best management practices for low-volume forest roads in the Piedmont region: summary and implications of research; Can traffic signs be too bright on low-volume roads?; Cost-effective safety treatment of trees on low-volume rural roads; Decision tree–based method for safety treatment selection at intersections involving shared-use low-volume roads; Driver speed behavior on circular curves of undivided two-lane rural roads: Serbian and Italian case studies; Driving behavior of sleep apnea subjects and measures of green travel on low-volume roads; Dust control products at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, Texas: Environmental safety and performance; Effect of painted shoulders on vehicle speed; Environmentally optimized design for low-volume district roads in Tanzania; Establishing speed limits on unpaved roads: methodology and case study; Identifying low-volume road segments with high frequencies of severe crashes; Implementation of Wyoming rural road safety program; Inexpensive retroreflectivity field inspection kit; Low-cost measures for reducing speeds at curves on two-lane rural highways; Modeling driver behavior by using the speed environment for two-lane rural roads; Optimization of farm-to-market road investment and maintenance activities in selected developing countries; Overview of Amazon Basin Forest Roads Manual; Physics models for vehicle crush during frontal fixed-barrier impacts; Safety evaluations for skewed intersections on low-volume roads: case study; Safety inspection and management tools for low-volume road network; Simple empirical guide to pavement design of low-volume roads in Indiana; Strategic safety management plan for Wind River Indian Reservation; Toward sustainable management of low-volume roads in Chile: Improvements and challenges; Updating side friction factors for design of unpaved roads; Worst-case connection strength considerations in designing certification crash test experiments for W-beam guardrail. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting