Life-cycle cost analysis of highway intersection safety hardware improvements

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-140

  Madanu, Sunil ^a   Li, Zongzhi ^a   Abbas, Montasir ^b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisions; Highway; Intersection; Life cycles; Safety

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; COLLISIONS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONSUMER SURPLUS; DOLLAR VALUE; HIGHWAY INTERSECTION; INTERSECTION SAFETY; INVESTMENT DECISION MAKING; LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS; PAVEMENT MARKINGS; PROJECT EVALUATION; RISK-BASED APPROACH; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY INDEX; TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES; VEHICLE CRASHES;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HARDWARE; INVESTMENTS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS; SERVICE LIFE; TRANSPORTATION;

INTERSECTIONS;

COLLISION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; PLANNING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

OZAUKEE COUNTY; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77950956457     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000082     Document Type: Article

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