Overview of safety countermeasures for wrong-way driving crashes

ITE Journal (Institute of Transportation Engineers)

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 31-38

  Pour Rouholamin, Mahdi ^a   Zhou, Huaguo ^a   Shaw, Jeffrey ^b   Tobias, Priscilla ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^c Illinois Department of Transportation's State Safety Engineer   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS; SURVEYS;

CASE-STUDIES; CURRENT PRACTICES; DRIVING FACTORS; PAVEMENT MARKINGS; REAL-WORLD; SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES; TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84924981145     PISSN: 01628178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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