摘要: |
The Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) is a safety data base that contains accident, roadway inventory, and traffic volume data for a select group of states. The data base is maintained by the Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with participating states. This article describes the study to determine if HSIS data could be used to develop the accident prediction module for the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (ISHDM). Consideration was given to types of roadways, but the focus was on roadway section accidents, which occur between the intersections and interchanges. The authors concluded from this two-state study that the successful development of accident frequencies for eight roadway types was possible using state data from a large data base like HSIS. Accident rates from HSIS will be valuable in developing the level 1 ISHDM. Additional research is needed to understand key variables--type of terrain, width of clear zone, traffic volume, overall alignment, land-use characteristics, and weather condition of the region--for the different roadway types. |