摘要: |
According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), in 2008 nearly one-fourth of the fatalities occurred at horizontal curves.1 Particularly, fatality rates at rural horizontal curves are more than twice than that at urban horizontal curves. Fatal-and-injury (FI) (i.e., incapacitating injury crash, non-incapacitating crash, and possible injury crash) crashes accommodate roughly half the number of total crashes. Hence, addressing the safety problem at horizontal curves is one of FHWA’s three focus areas.2 The Strategic Highway Safety Plan prepared by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) also counts crashes at horizontal curves as one of 22 emphasis areas. |