TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Rural highway design consistency evaluation model
JO  - Procedia - social and behavioral sciences
A1  - Russo, Francesca
A1  - Mauro, Raffaele
A1  - Dell'Acqua, Gianluca
SP  - 952
EP  - 960
VL  - 53
IS  - 
N2  - Design consistency assessment is a tool employed by designers to improve road safety. This study illustrates an investigation on two-lane rural roads in the Southern Italy without spiral horizontal transition curves to check a prediction consistency model. Two consistency measures were compared with the results in the scientific literature: the first was the area bounded by the speed profile and the average weighted speed; the second was the standard deviation of operating speeds for each segment. Combining these two measures by sensitivity analysis, a consistency model was developed by using results of a 2011 research project performing V85 prediction models.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1877-0428
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.944
ID  - ref1
ER  -