Road markings as an alcohol countermeasure in traffic safety : a field test of standard and wide edgelines. Summary of the paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

It is the ability of the driver to negotiate a highway that is the ultimate consediration in whether or not an accident will occur. The most important single effect on driver behaviour is the safety potential of the road itself. Using these two propositions as a starting point, researchers at Potters Industries asked the question of whether a traffic engineering approach to the road environment would be effective in combating the safety problem of the alcohol-impaired driver.