Kuhlman's Killer Roads

Kuhlman's Killer Roads
Author: William E. Kenworthy
Publisher: Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Liability for traffic accidents
ISBN: 9780327100164

More than 40,000 people are killed on our highways each year, & millions more are injured. Bad drivers & bad vehicles alone do not account for this carnage. The highway itself is often a contributing -even determining -cause of accidents.

Killer Roads

Killer Roads
Author: Richard S. Kuhlman
Publisher: MICHIE
Total Pages: 854
Release: 1986
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This handbook examines the area of transportation facility negligence cases. Topics covered include roadside obstacles, missing signs, barricades, potholes and shoulders, curve design, railraod crossings, guardrails, sidewalk defects, ditches, lights and signals, pavement marking, snow removal, and construction hazards.

ABA Journal

ABA Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1986-10-01
Genre:
ISBN:

The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.

A Guide for Implementing Bus on Shoulder (BOS) Systems

A Guide for Implementing Bus on Shoulder (BOS) Systems
Author: Peter C. Martin
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012
Genre: Bus lanes
ISBN: 0309258200

"Provides guidelines for the planning, design, and implementation of BOS operations along urban freeways and major arterials ... The report should be useful as a decision-making guide to assist transit operators, state DOTs, MPOs, and other stakeholders in assessing the feasibility of the BOS concept, developing safe and effective BOS plans, implementing initial BOS operations, and maintaining or expanding ongoing BOS operations."--Foreword.

A Study of Selected Warning Devices for Reducing Truck Speeds

A Study of Selected Warning Devices for Reducing Truck Speeds
Author: Dan R. Middleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1994
Genre: Detectors
ISBN:

Providing effective roadside warning devices for drivers of large trucks is critical on freeway connectors where speeds are relatively high but design speeds may be substantially less than on mainlanes. Identifying and testing appropriate methods of monitoring traffic on freeway connectors was also included in this research. Two monitoring systems evolved, one using roadway sensors and the other using roadside sensors. Roadway sensors consisted of both piezoelectric and inductive loop sensors, while roadside sensors applied infrared sensor technology. The roadway warning devices tested can be categorized as passive devices and active devices. Passive devices consisted of "truck tipping" warning signs, while the active device consisted of flashing lights mounted one above and one below a set of passive truck tipping signs on both sides of the roadway. Speed reduction, as associated with accident reduction, was the ultimate goal of these tests. The null hypothesis tested by ANOVA of no treatment effect in the presence of initial speed was rejected in all but one of four models, using the probability of a Type I error, $\\\\alpha, $ equal 0.05. Speed reductions due to the active system were significant in AC and BC data sets, but not in AB data sets, suggesting that truck driver response to the lights occurred downstream of Location B. Truck weights were not significant in any tenable test results, and separation of trucks into the categories of combination and non-combination trucks, peak/off-peak periods, and day/night/dusk periods was not helpful in understanding variations in truck speeds. Cumulative speed distributions showed that the fastest trucks decreased their speeds by approximately 2 to 3 mph (3 to 5 kph) during the test period. Five of the seven single-vehicle truck accidents that were recorded on the I-610/US-59 connector in an 8 1/2 year period that were speed-related resulted in rollover. None occurred after installation of warning treatments being tested, although there were other prior years with no recorded accidents