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Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach
Hurwitz, David S.; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Belz, Nathan; Boyle, Linda; Hajibabai, Leila; Barlow, Zach (2016)In the United States, lane departure crashes represent the majority of the fatalities that occur on roadways. In addition to infrastructure changes, public service announcements (PSAs) are an option to influence the ... -
Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach - Phase II
Hurwitz, David S.; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Belz, Nathan; Boyle, Linda; Hajibabai, Leila; Barlow, Zach (2017)There are multiple approaches available to roadway safety officials to reduce the 17,000 average annual fatalities that occur because of roadway departure crashes (FHWA 2016). One of these approaches is educating the driving ... -
Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach - Phase II
Hurwitz, David; Barlow, Zachary; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Belz, Nathan; Boyle, Linda; Hajibabai, Leila (2018)There are multiple approaches available to roadway safety officials to reduce the 17,000 average annual fatalities that occur because of roadway departure crashes (FHWA 2016). One of these approaches is educating the driving ... -
Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach - Phase III
Hurwitz, David; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Belz, Nathan; Boyle, Linda; Hajibabai, Leila; Fleskes, Kayla (2018)A heavily interactive transportation safety presentation was developed by the research team. The safety presentations focused on local transportation safety issues, using images of locations that students might recognize ... -
Mixed-Use Safety on Rural Facilities in the Pacific Northwest
Belz, Nathan; Chang, Kevin (2016)In the United States, one in 12 households does not own a personal automobile, and approximately 13 percent of those who are old enough to drive do not. Trips by these individuals are being made in many other possible modes, ... -
Passing Zone Behavior and Sight Distance on Rural Highways: Evaluation of Crash Risk and Safety under Different Geometric Conditions
Belz, Nathan; Chang, Kevin (2016)To determine the effect of horizontal curvature, vertical curvature, and guardrails on driver passing behavior, a combination of field data collection and a driving simulator in a controlled environment were used. Field ... -
Safety Evaluation of Statewide Off-Highway Vehicle Use in Alaska
Belz, Nathan (2018)Standard measures of risk and conflict, design guidelines, and informed policies and regulations for off-highway vehicle users (e.g., all-terrain vehicles and snow machines) near and on the traveled way are not well ...