Operational Impacts of Median Width on Larger Vehicles

Operational Impacts of Median Width on Larger Vehicles

Author: Douglas W. Harwood

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780309068659

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This synthesis report will be of interest to officials and staff of municipal, regional, and statewide transportation agencies responsible for roadway design and traffic control. It will be of special interest to those concerned with intersections and driveways on divided highways where larger vehicles encounter narrow medians. It will also be of interest to other professionals who interact with these agencies to mitigate such problems. This report presents state-of-the-practice information about current median design policies and practices, describes the traffic operational and safety problems encountered in designing for larger vehicles at divided highway intersections, and identifies alternative improvement techniques that can be used in new construction or reconstruction projects to avoid introducing traffic operational and safety problems. This TRB report focuses on 10 alternative cross sections widely used on arterial highways in urban, suburban, and rural environment.


Safety of U-turns at Unsignalized Median Openings

Safety of U-turns at Unsignalized Median Openings

Author: Ingrid B. Potts

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0309088054

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 524: Safety of U-Turns at Unsignalized Median Openings includes recommended guidelines for locating and designing unsignalized median openings, and a methodology for comparing the relative safety performance of different designs"--Publisher's description.


Roundabouts

Roundabouts

Author: Lee August Rodegerdts

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0309155118

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide - Second Edition explores the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of roundabouts. The report also addresses issues that may be useful in helping to explain the trade-offs associated with roundabouts. This report updates the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, based on experience gained in the United States since that guide was published in 2000.


Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research

Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research

Author: Louis-Martin Rousseau

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 3030192121

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research, CPAIOR 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2019. The 34 full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The conference brings together interested researchers from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR) to present new techniques or applications and to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in the others. A main objective of this conference series is also to give these researchers the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from different fields can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems.


Highway Safety Manual

Highway Safety Manual

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Publisher: AASHTO

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 886

ISBN-13: 1560514779

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"The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. The focus of the HSM is to provide quantitative information for decision making. The HSM assembles currently available information and methodologies on measuring, estimating and evaluating roadways in terms of crash frequency (number of crashes per year) and crash severity (level of injuries due to crashes). The HSM presents tools and methodologies for consideration of 'safety' across the range of highway activities: planning, programming, project development, construction, operations, and maintenance. The purpose of this is to convey present knowledge regarding highway safety information for use by a broad array of transportation professionals"--p. xxiii, vol. 1.


Operational Efficiency in Forestry

Operational Efficiency in Forestry

Author: C.R. Silversides

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9401705062

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It is our conviction that professional skill in forestry will develop more readily and more efficiently if forestry students are presented with a clear understanding of the im pact of the physical factors that both enhance and inhibit forestry activities. Part I is analytic, written as a basic text for undergradu ates in courses such as logging, transport, forest engineer ing and even forest management. It deals with the fundamen tals of technology in forestry as determined by the physical environment. The analytic approach serves two purposes, to bring about a clear understanding of the real world of the forest and to develop tools through which efficiency and productivity can be explored, understood and improved. The principal author of this volume was Prof. Ulf sundberg. Part II discusses in some detail a wide variety of practical problems encountered by foresters. It describes harvesting systems and the principles of management and control of forest operations. The influence of the forest on operations is described at length, the terrain, topography, forest soils as well as the engineering characteristics of trees and forest stands. It also considers the impact of oper ations on the forest. The principal author of this volume was Dr. Ross Silversides. Chapters 11, 12 and 13 were written by-Prof. Sundberg.


Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India

Author: Akhilesh Kumar Maurya

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-05

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9811682593

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This book (in three volumes) comprises the proceedings of the Fifth Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2019) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight. The contents of the volume include characterization of conventional and innovative pavement materials, operational effects of road geometry, user impact of multimodal transport projects, spatial analysis of travel patterns, socio-economic impacts of transport projects, analysis of transportation policy and planning for safety and security, technology enabled models of mobility services, etc. This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers alike.