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Summary Reports

HSIS Summary Reports are two to six pages in length and include a brief description of the issue addressed, data used, methodology applied, significant results, and practical implications.

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New: Safety Effects of Using Narrow Lanes and Shoulder-Use Lanes to Increase the Capacity of Urban Freeways
2005 -- FHWA-HRT-05-001 -- PDF File

Accident Analysis of Older Drivers on Freeways
August 1996 -- FHWA-RD-96-035

Accident Analysis of Older Drivers at Intersections
February 1995 -- FHWA-RD-94-021

The Application of an Improved Accident Analysis Method for Highway Safety Evaluations
October 1994 -- FHWA-RD-94-082

Association of Median Width and Highway Accident Rate
August 1993 -- FHWA-RD-93-046

Association of Selected Intersection Factors With Red-Light-Running Crashes
May 2000 -- FHWA-RD-00-112 -- PDF File

Comparison of the Safety of Lighting Options on Urban Freeways
May 1995 -- FHWA-RD-94-188 -- PDF File

The Effects of Airbags on Severity Indices for Roadside Objects
February 1998 -- FHWA-RD-98-056 -- PDF File

Effects of Towaway Reporting Threshold on Crash Analysis
August 1998 -- FHWA-RD-98-114 -- PDF File

GIS-Based Crash Referencing and Analysis System
February 1999 -- FHWA-RD-99-081 -- PDF File

Investigation of Crashes With Animals
March 1995 -- FHWA-RD-94-156

Investigation of Highway Work Zone Crashes
October 1996 -- FHWA-RD-96-100

Investigation of National Highway System Roadways in the HSIS States
April 1998 -- FHWA-RD-98-080 -- PDF File

The Magnitude and Severity of Passing Accidents on Two-Lane Rural Roads
November 1994 -- FHWA-RD-94-068

Review of the Impacts of the Towaway Reporting Threshold on a Highway Safety Program
July 2001 -- FHWA-RD-01-114 -- PDF File

Roadway Widths for Low-Traffic Volume Roads
July 1994 -- FHWA-RD-94-023

Safety Evaluation of Rolled-In Continuous Shoulder Rumble Strips Installed on Freeways
December 1999 -- FHWA-RD-00-032 -- PDF File

Safety Effects of the Conversion of Rural Two-Lane Roadways to Four-Lane Roadways
November 1999 -- FHWA-RD-99-206  -- PDF File

Safety Effects of Cross-Section Design on Rural Multilane Highways
June 1997 -- FHWA-RD-97-027 -- PDF File

Safety Effects of Using Narrow Lanes and Shoulder-Use Lanes to Increase the Capacity of Urban Freeways
2005 -- FHWA-HRT-05-001 -- PDF File

Truck Accident Models
August 1994 -- FHWA-RD-94-022

Using GIS in the Analysis of Truck Crashes
June 1999 -- FHWA-RD-99-119 -- PDF File

An Examination of Fault, Unsafe Driving Acts, and Total Harm in Car-Truck Collisions
June 2004 -- FHWA-HRT-04-085 -- PDF File


hsis FOR INQUIRIES CONTACT:
Carol Tan, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike, HRDS-06, McLean, VA 22101 Phone: (202) 493-3315, Fax: (202) 493-3374, E-mail: carol.tan@fhwa.dot.gov


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