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| Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-13-088 Date: May 2014 |
Publication Number:
FHWA-HRT-13-088
Date: May 2014 |
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has identified roadway departure as a focus area because roadway departure crashes consistently contribute to more than half of the fatal crashes on U.S. roadways. Access to relevant data is critical to understanding the causes of roadway departure and mitigating the consequences. This study seeks to maximize available vehicle and infrastructure crashworthiness data sources and repurpose them to answer questions of interest to FHWA, such as the identification of barrier types and end treatments subjected to specific crash conditions previously unreported in the crashworthiness datasets.
This study is part of a series of low-cost in-house efforts to make full use of existing data resources to understand the roadway departure problem. Existing data will be extrapolated and interpolated to determine reliable results and identify missing data. This report represents an ongoing effort in roadway departure analysis.
Monique R. Evans
Director, Office of Safety
Research and Development
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