Reducing Work Zone Crashes By Using Vehicle's Flashers as a Warning Sign
Reducing Work Zone Crashes By Using Vehicle's Flashers as a Warning Sign
Rural two-lane highways constitute a large percentage of the highway system in Kansas. Preserving, expending, and enhancing these highways require the set-up of a large number of one-lane, two-way work zones where traffic safety has been a severe concern. Aimed at reducing the work zone crashes attributable to inattentive driving, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) initiated a research project to evaluate the effectiveness of a traffic warning sign that is assembled by using the emergency warning flashers of the vehicles in one-lane, two-way work zones. This warning sign was named as the Emergency Flasher Traffic Control Device (EFTCD). It works in the following fashion. When a vehicle entering a one-lane, two-way work zone where stopping is required for waiting to pass the work zone, the driver is required to turn on its emergency warning flashers to warn the following vehicles of the work zone stopping condition.
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Reducing Work Zone Crashes By Using Vehicle's Flashers as a Warning Sign
2009
145 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Transportation Safety , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Work zone crashes , Kansas , Traffic safety , Warning flashers , Effectiveness , Research project , Emergency Flasher Traffic Control Device , Experiment , Vehicle data speed , Driver surveys , Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) , Emergency Flasher Traffic Control Device (EFTDC)
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