论文信息 - ACCIDENTS ON RURAL INTERSTATE AND PARKWAY ROADS AND THEIR RELATION TO PAVEMENT FRICTION

ACCIDENTS ON RURAL INTERSTATE AND PARKWAY ROADS AND THEIR RELATION TO PAVEMENT FRICTION

Friction measurements were made with a skid trailer at 70 mph (31 m/s) on 770 miles (1240 km) of rural, four-lane, controlled-access routes on Interstate and parkway systems in Kentucky. Each construction project was treated as a test section. Accident experience, friction measurements, and traffic volumes were obtained for each. Various relationships between wet-weather accidents and skid resistance were analyzed. Averaging methods were used to develop trends and minimize scatter. A moving average for progressively ordered sets of five test sections yielded more definite results. The expression of accident occurrence that correlated best with skid and slip resistance was wet- weather accidents per 100 million vehicle miles (161 million vehicle km). Accidents (at 70 mph (31 m/s)) increased greatly as skid numbers decreased from 27. Analysis of peak slip numbers and accident occurrences indicated similar trends.

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