摘要: |
The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) being developed by the Federal Highway Administration will provide highway design engineers with safety information on the relationships between geometrics and accidents in a usable format and will guide the designer in evaluating the safety of alternative alignments. This article discusses the accident predictive module of IHSDM. The IHSDM architecture connects the accident predictive module to the data stored in the computer-aided design (CAD) package. Eventually, IHSDM will allow the other modules, especially the driver module and the traffic module, to communicate with the accident predictive module. The development of the accident predictive module will be an evolutionary process in three phases. Phase 1 is the short-term goal and deals only with two-lane, rural roads. Phase 2 will address both roadway and roadside accidents and will continue to develop the interface between the accident predictive module and the CAD package. Three submodels will be developed: roadways, intersections, and interchange ramps. Phase 3 is a long-term goal that will establish the relationship between geometric design elements, accidents, and driver performance. A sidebar provides details on the status of the accident predictive module's intersection submodel. |