While Phase I of this effort involved the examination of the nature of accidents, their circumstances, and potential treatments, Phase II involves a different issue. Rather than an examination of crash circumstances, it is now attempting to conduct an examination of locations. More specifically, the attempt in the study is to identify specific locations where trucks are overrepresented in terms of crashes and to determine the nature of the accident problems at these high-accident locations. The hope here to be able to define the roadway or environmental factors which contribute to the high incidence of truck accidents at a given location in order to design possible treatments. The North Carolina Division of Highways Traffic Engineering Branch has for a number of years conducted a systematic program which identifies locations across the state which are considered high-hazard locations -- locations which appear to need further examination in the field and perhaps the implementation of the treatment or countermeasure. The program has proven to be quite effective in both identifying these locations and, in most cases, in determining and implementing an appropriate treatment which affects subsequent accidents at the site.
Large Truck Safety in North Carolina. The Identification of Problem Locations on the Designated Route System. Phase 2. Final Report
1989
46 pages
Report
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English
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