Application of Crash Modification Factors for Access Management, Volume 2: Research Overview
The 1st Edition, in 2010, of the AASHTO
Highway Safety Manual revolutionized highway engineering practice by providing crash modification factors and functions, along with methods
that use safety performance functions for estimating the number of crashes within a corridor, subsequent to implementing safety countermeasures.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Research Report 974:
Application of Crash Modification Factors for Access Management, Volume 2: Research Overview
documents the research process related to access management features. The research project is also summarized in this
presentation.
NCHRP Research Report 974: Application of Crash Modification Factors for Access Management, Volume 1: Practitioner’s Guide presents methods to help transportation practitioners quantify the safety impacts of access management strategies and make more informed access-related decisions on urban and suburban arterials.
This Summary Last Modified On: 11/18/2021