Safety of U-turns at Unsignalized Median Openings

Safety of U-turns at Unsignalized Median Openings
Author: Ingrid B. Potts
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2004
Genre: Median strips
ISBN: 0309088054

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 524: Safety of U-Turns at Unsignalized Median Openings includes recommended guidelines for locating and designing unsignalized median openings, and a methodology for comparing the relative safety performance of different designs"--Publisher's description.

Passing Sight Distance Criteria

Passing Sight Distance Criteria
Author: Douglas W. Harwood
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2008
Genre: Automobile driving
ISBN: 0309099277

At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

State of the Practice in Highway Access Management

State of the Practice in Highway Access Management
Author: Jerome S. Gluck
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2010
Genre: Highway engineering
ISBN: 0309143055

This synthesis reports how various agencies have acted on the various components of an access management program, what have been barriers to action, and how new efforts might improve implementation of access management strategies. Primary focus areas considered are legal and legislative bases, contents of policies and programs, implementation aspects, reported effectiveness of program implementation, and profiles of contemporary practice. This synthesis reports on the state of the practice with respect to planning, highway design, development review and permitting, and other focus areas where access management is typically incorporated. The emphasis is placed on states, but counties, municipalities, and metropolitan planning organizations are also considered.

Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations

Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations
Author: Marcus Brewer
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309223598

RB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations reviews and summarizes roadway geometric design literature completed and published from 2001 through early 2011, particularly research that identified impacts on safety and operations.

Integrated Safety Management Process

Integrated Safety Management Process
Author: Geni Bahar
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0309087708

Rising awareness of and increased attention to sexual harassment has resulted in momentum to implement sexual harassment prevention efforts in higher education institutions. Work on preventing sexual harassment is an area that has recently garnered a lot of attention, especially around education and programs that go beyond the standard anti-sexual harassment trainings often used to comply with legal requirements. On April 20-21, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the workshop Developing Evaluation Metrics for Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts. The workshop explored approaches and strategies for evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of sexual harassment interventions being implemented at higher education institutions and research and training sites, in order to assist institutions in transforming promising ideas into evidence-based best practices. Workshop participants also addressed methods, metrics, and measures that could be used to evaluate sexual harassment prevention efforts that lead to change in the organizational climate and culture and/or a change in behavior among community members. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.

Evaluation of Pavement Friction Characteristics

Evaluation of Pavement Friction Characteristics
Author: John Jewett Henry
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2000
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780309068741

This synthesis report will be of interest to pavement design, construction, management, and research engineers, highway safety officials, and others concerned with pavement friction characteristics. It describes the current state of the practice and discusses the methods used for evaluating wet pavement friction characteristics of new and restored pavements. This synthesis reviews models used for measuring and evaluating friction and texture, causes for friction changes over time, and aggregate and mix design to provide adequate friction. Also presented are construction and surface restoration practices for providing good pavement surface characteristics. In addition, considerations of noise and ride quality are discussed when compromise may be required.

Freight Data Cost Elements

Freight Data Cost Elements
Author: José Holguín-Veras
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013
Genre: Freight and freightage
ISBN: 0309258995

"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 22: Freight Data Cost Elements identifies the specific types of direct freight transportation cost data elements required for public investment, policy, and regulatory decisionmaking. The report also describes and assesses different strategies for identifying and obtaining the needed cost data elements"--Publisher's description.

Highway Safety Research Agenda

Highway Safety Research Agenda
Author: Charles V. Zegeer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013
Genre: Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN: 9780309283526

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 756: Highway Safety Research Agenda: Infrastructure and Operations develops a proposed agenda of prioritized safety research needs in the area of highway infrastructure and operations. The report provides options to the U.S. transportation community on how to direct research to the areas where it can provide the most benefit. The agenda is based on a prioritization methodology developed by the research team which can be applied on a recurring basis to update the agenda over time. Both the agenda and the methodology documented in this report will assist government officials, private sector employees, and academics with managing highway safety research. In addition to the report, 16 unpublished appendices (Appendices A-O and R) have been made available electronically."--Publisher description.