Highway Safety Manual Three-volume Set 2010

Highway Safety Manual, PE Exam Edition This is the Highway Safety Manual, 1st Edition without its 2014 supplement. It is being made available for students preparing to take the Professional Engineers exam, which currently list this edition as a reference, but does not use the supplement. The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) was developed to help measurably reduce the frequency and severity of crashes on American roadways by providing tools for considering safety in the project development process. The HSM assists practitioners in selecting countermeasures and prioritizing projects, comparing alternatives, and quantifying and predicting the safety performance of roadway elements considered in planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation. The three-volume HSM features a synthesis of validated highway research, procedures for including safety in project decisions, and analytical tools for predicting impact on road safety "The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. The focus of the HSM is to provide quantitative information for decision making. The HSM assembles currently available information and methodologies on measuring, estimating and evaluating roadways in terms of crash frequency (number of crashes per year) and crash severity (level of injuries due to crashes). The HSM presents tools and methodologies for consideration of 'safety' across the range of highway activities: planning, programming, project development, construction, operations, and maintenance. The purpose of this is to convey present knowledge regarding highway safety information for use by a broad array of transportation professionals"--Volume 1, page xxiii Content: Vol. 1 -- Part A. Introduction, Human Factors, and Fundamentals -- Part B. Roadway Safety Management Process -- Ch. 4. Network Screening -- Ch. 5. Diagnosis -- Ch. 6. Select Countermeasures -- Ch. 7. Economic Appraisal -- Ch. 8. Prioritize Projects -- Ch. 9. Safety Effectiveness Evaluation -- Vol 2. -- Part C. Predictive Method -- Ch. 10. Predictive Method for Rural Two-Lane, Two-Way Roads -- Ch. 11. Predictive Method for Rural Multilane Highways -- Ch. 12. Predictive Method for Urban and Suburban Arterials -- Vol. 3. -- Part D. Crash Modification Factors -- Ch. 13. Roadway Segments -- Ch. 14. Intersections -- Ch. 15. Interchanges -- Ch. 16. Special Facilities and Geometric Situations -- Ch. 17. Road Networks. "The Highway Safety Manual Supplement includes two new chapters that help utilize the predictive method to estimate the expected average crash frequency (in total, by crash type, or by crash severity) for both freeways and ramps with known characteristics. The third chapter, Appendix B for Part C, describes two specialized procedures to be used with the predictive method presented in the new Chapters 18 and 19; the first procedure is used to calibrate the predictive models; the second, the Empirical Bayes Method, helps combine observed crash frequencies with the estimates provided by the predictive models."-- Publisher's website. ch. 18. Predictive method for freeways -- -- ch. 19 Predictive method for ramps -- -- Appendix B: Specialized Procedures Common to Chapters 18 and 19.