Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records

The increasing number of run-off-road accidents has driven institutions to study and introduce roadside geometric design guidelines to reduce the number of fatalities and severe injuries. Providing the right configuration and dimensions of a roadside slope cross section would allow travel lane motor...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Kunji, Ahmad Kamal, Kusbiantoro, Andri, Zulkiple, Adnan, Ramli, Harzah M
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2018
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/1/Paper%20Ir%20Kamal%202.pdf

id	ump-24917
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ump-249172019-05-21T04:40:23Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/ Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records Kunji, Ahmad Kamal Kusbiantoro, Andri Zulkiple, Adnan Ramli, Harzah M TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements The increasing number of run-off-road accidents has driven institutions to study and introduce roadside geometric design guidelines to reduce the number of fatalities and severe injuries. Providing the right configuration and dimensions of a roadside slope cross section would allow travel lane motorists who have strayed off the travel lane with a safe way of traversing back into driving lanes and can reduce run-off-road fatal accidents or severe injuries. American Association of Highway and Transportation Official (AASHTO) introduced roadside safety clear zone derived from a set of past accident records. Unfortunately, most of other countries do not keep the same past accident records. Alternatively, safety clear zone can be derived from live field experiments. The 180 live field experiments were safely performed by five drivers with three motorcars at ten locations having various roadside slope gradients and ground surface conditions. The motorcar tires’ printed marks on the turfed roadside were measured, recorded, and analyzed to establish a safety clear zone corridor size. Comparatively, the American figures are higher as they have accounted for additional widths of nonrecovery zone and turn out area, the justifiable difference confirms that deriving roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths by the method of live field experiments is a sound engineering practice. The study concludes that the live field experiment method can be applied in place of past accident records in establishing the size of roadside safety clear zones. Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2018-12 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/1/Paper%20Ir%20Kamal%202.pdf Kunji, Ahmad Kamal and Kusbiantoro, Andri and Zulkiple, Adnan and Ramli, Harzah M (2018) Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records. International Journal of Engineering Technology And Sciences (IJETS), 5 (3). pp. 105-117. ISSN 2289-697X http://dx.doi.org/10.15282/ijets.5.3.2018.1.1009
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Malaysia Pahang
building	UMP Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
topic	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements
spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements Kunji, Ahmad Kamal Kusbiantoro, Andri Zulkiple, Adnan Ramli, Harzah M Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
description	The increasing number of run-off-road accidents has driven institutions to study and introduce roadside geometric design guidelines to reduce the number of fatalities and severe injuries. Providing the right configuration and dimensions of a roadside slope cross section would allow travel lane motorists who have strayed off the travel lane with a safe way of traversing back into driving lanes and can reduce run-off-road fatal accidents or severe injuries. American Association of Highway and Transportation Official (AASHTO) introduced roadside safety clear zone derived from a set of past accident records. Unfortunately, most of other countries do not keep the same past accident records. Alternatively, safety clear zone can be derived from live field experiments. The 180 live field experiments were safely performed by five drivers with three motorcars at ten locations having various roadside slope gradients and ground surface conditions. The motorcar tires’ printed marks on the turfed roadside were measured, recorded, and analyzed to establish a safety clear zone corridor size. Comparatively, the American figures are higher as they have accounted for additional widths of nonrecovery zone and turn out area, the justifiable difference confirms that deriving roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths by the method of live field experiments is a sound engineering practice. The study concludes that the live field experiment method can be applied in place of past accident records in establishing the size of roadside safety clear zones.
format	Article
author	Kunji, Ahmad Kamal Kusbiantoro, Andri Zulkiple, Adnan Ramli, Harzah M
author_facet	Kunji, Ahmad Kamal Kusbiantoro, Andri Zulkiple, Adnan Ramli, Harzah M
author_sort	Kunji, Ahmad Kamal
title	Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
title_short	Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
title_full	Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
title_fullStr	Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
title_full_unstemmed	Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
title_sort	roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang
publishDate	2018
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24917/1/Paper%20Ir%20Kamal%202.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T22:37:58Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T22:37:58Z
_version_	1777416723274661888

Roadside safety recovery zone corridor widths derived from live field experiments and comparison to past accidents records

Similar Items