Assessing benefits of chevrons with full retroreflective signposts on rural horizontal curves

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2149, 2010, Pages 30-36

  Ré, Jonathan M ^a   Hawkins, H Gene ^b   Chrysler, Susan T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

% REDUCTIONS; CONDITION; HORIZONTAL CURVES; LATERAL POSITIONS; MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES; POSITION FINDING; POTENTIAL REDUCTION; STUDY SITES; VEHICLE SPEED;

VEHICLES;

EID: 78651274796     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2149-04     Document Type: Article

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