Safety Evaluation Of Cable Median Barriers In Combination With Rumble Strips On Divided Roads
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Safety Evaluation of Cable Median Barriers in Combination with Rumble Strips on Divided Roads
Author | : Raghavan Srinivasan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Head-on collisions |
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The Development of Crash Modification Factors program conducted the safety evaluation of cable median barriers in combination with rumble strips on the inside shoulder of divided roads for the Evaluation of Low Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study. This study evaluated safety effectiveness of cable median barriers in combination with rumble strips on the inside shoulders of divided roads. This strategy is intended to reduce the frequency of cross-median crashes, which tend to be very severe. Geometric, traffic, and crash data were obtained for divided roads in Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri. To account for potential selection bias and regression-to-the-mean, an empirical Bayes before-after analysis was conducted using reference groups of untreated roads with characteristics similar to those of the treated sites. The analysis also controlled for changes in traffic volumes over time and time trends in crash counts unrelated to the treatment. In Illinois and Kentucky, cable median barriers were introduced many years after the inside shoulder rumble strips were installed; therefore, the evaluation determined the safety effect of implementing cable barriers along sections that already had rumble strips. Conversely, in Missouri, the inside shoulder rumble strips and cable barrier were implemented around the same time. Hence, the evaluation in Missouri determined the combined safety effect of inside shoulder rumble strips and cable barriers. The combined Illinois and Kentucky results indicate about a 27-percent increase in total crashes; a 24-percent decrease in fatal, incapacitating injury crashes; and a 48-percent decrease in head-on plus opposite-direction sideswipe crashes (used as a proxy for cross-median indicator plus head-on). the economic analysis for benefit-cost ratios shows that this strategy is cost beneficial.
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