U.S. Department of Transportation
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| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-14-0004 | |
| Project Name: | Pavement Safety Performance (PSP) Data Analysis Program | |
| Project Status: | Active | |
| Start Date: | March 5, 2014 | |
| End Date: | January 6, 2017 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Sherwood | |
| First Name: | James A | |
| Telephone: | 202-493-3150 | |
| E-mail: | jim.sherwood@dot.gov | |
| Office: | Office of Infrastructure Research and Development | |
| Team: | Infrastructure Analysis and Construction Team [HRDI-20] | |
| Program: | Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center | |
| Laboratory: | Geometric Design Laboratory | |
| Project detail | ||
| Roadmap/Focus area(s): | Safety Data and Analysis | |
| Project Description: | This project will integrate pavement performance databases with highway safety information systems, and analyze the data to develop crash modification factors and pavement management strategies that include safety. | |
| Goals: |
(1) Prove that pavement surface characteristics are the most important factors affecting the number of fatal and disabling injury crashes.
(2) Prove that rigid pavements have lower crash rates than flexible pavements.
(3) Demonstrate that the concrete mixture proportions associated with higher strength concretes have lower friction numbers and that an intermediate strength provides the optimum performance in terms of safety and distress.
(4) Demonstrate that recycled asphalt concrete pavements have lower friction numbers.
(5) Prove that the current state-of-the-art method to develop Crash Modification Factors (Empirical Bayes) yield inaccurate numbers for pavements.
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| Field Test: | Friction testing and real-life crash data. | |
| Product Type: | Techbrief Technical report | |
| Test Methodology: | Staff study that uses the work of contractors and relevant research. | |
| Expected Benefits: | Pavement management practices that result in more cost-effective roads by reducing fatal and incapacitating injuries. | |
| Deliverables: | Name: Conference paper(s). Product Type(s): Techbrief, Technical report Description: This research will produce a set of papers. | |
| FHWA Topics: | Safety--Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) / Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) | |
| TRT Terms: | Crash Rates Infrastructure Research Pavements Crash Causes Pavement Performance Pavements |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | Pavement and Materials Safety |
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| Subject Areas: | Highways Maintenance and Preservation Pavements |
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