@article{ref1,
title="Emerging Trends in Intersection Safety",
journal="ITE journal",
year="2008",
author="Preston, Howard and Coakley, Richard",
volume="78",
number="12",
pages="24-28",
abstract="Many states are reevaluating their approach to addressing intersection safety. This new approach is based on adopting a new safety performance measure as part of the strategic safety planning process--setting goals to reduce the number of highway traffic-related fatalities. The traditional approach has been to address intersection crashes through a safety improvement process that focused on locations with an unusually high crash frequency, rate or severity. This process frequently directed intersection safety investments toward urban, high-volume signalized intersection locations. The new, more balanced approach includes proactively addressing conditions at low-volume stop-controlled intersection in rural areas rather than being almost entirely reactive to a high frequency of crashes. The new approach requires agencies to supplement their analytical tools to identify system-wide crash characteristics and to adjust their safety investment priorities to direct some of their resources to locations that are often rural, stop-controlled and located along local systems of highways. Minnesota is used as an example of a state that is using this new approach. Since 70% of Minnesota's fatal crashes are in rural areas, the state is looking for proactive way to improve safety in rural areas. Low-cost strategies could include systematic deployment of street lights and enhancing the traffic control devices on stop-controlled approaches.<p />",
language="",
issn="0162-8178",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}