Purdue has not only led the way in spreading the gospel of better highway construction methods through its academic program and through regular meetings such as this one, but also set the pattern for service to the state highway department through its Joint Highway Research Project that is now being followed in many other states. And the influence of Purdue is being felt throughout the nation a...

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Transportation networks and governments are both hierarchically organized. In some states state government finances most of the highways, while in other states similar roads are financed locally. Larger governments attain scale economies. However they also tend to be more bureaucratic and have higher operating costs, all else equal, due to problems such as span of control. This study relates hi...

A Ithough the number of traffic accidents each year has been substantially reduced over the past decade, highway crashes continue to be a serious problem in the United States. In 1983 approximately 42,400 persons died in highway crashes, and 2 million suffered nonfatal injuries. The 217. reduction in annual highway fatalities and the 367. reduction in the highway fatality rate (fatalities/lOO m...

In order to solve the problem of highway standardization management ability description, evaluation and improvement, in this paper, a highway standardization management maturity evaluation model has firstly been put forward. Moreover, the influence highway qualitative factors of implementing the standardized management have analyzed and its evaluation index system has constructed. Furthermore, ...

A link layer controller is derived using a vehicle density conservation ow model. Control laws are considered for three highway topologies: a single lane highway, a highway with multiple discrete lanes and a highway with an arbitrary 2 dimensional ow pattern. The control laws obtained for each of the topologies is distributed and is very suited for implementation at lower levels of the AVHS con...

Rural highway is the foundation of highway network construction and the important bridge for balancing urban and rural harmonious development. Rural highway has the basic, pilot and driving function to new rural construction. This paper took a sampling survey on 173 villages in Hebei Province. According to the 687 questionnaires, this paper set up an evaluation system of the rural highway const...