Highway safety manual
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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…
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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"--Volume 1, page xxiii.
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- Publication Date:2010-2014
- Edition:1st edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- Place of Publication:Washington, DC
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010-2014
Notes
Set includes 3 numbered volumes, a supplement, an introduction, and errata.
A cooperative effort of the Transportation Research Board Task Force on the Development of the Highway Safety Manual, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Joint Task Force on the Highway Safety Manual, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
"Supplement to the HSM contains two chapters presenting predictive models for freeway and interchange facilities ... These chapters are published as a supplement to allow users access to these materials prior to publicaton of the next edition."--Supplement, page xvii.
The Physical Object
- Description:4 volumes : : illustrations ; : 28 cm +
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781560514770, 1560514779, 9781560516002, 1560516003
- oclc:ocn936178880
- LC Classification:HE5614.2
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