Vehicle conflicts in freeway weaving sections occur when vehicles are required to make lane changes, while operating in a confined space, without the aid of traffic control devices. The safety issue associated with lane changes is that drivers must remove their attention from the vehicle they are following and focus on vehicles next to and behind them while continuing to drive at a high speed. This change in focus has the potential to lead to crashes at a much higher rate than would be expected during normal freeway driving conditions. The objective of this paper is to analyze driver, environmental, roadway, geometrics, and operational characteristics to determine why crashes occurred and who is more likely to have crashes in weaving sections. The results revealed that 58.5% of weaving crashes were rear-end crashes on freeway weaving sections.
Analysis of Crashes on Freeway Weaving Sections
International Conference on Transportation and Development 2020 ; 2020 ; Seattle, Washington (Conference Cancelled)
2020-08-31
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Analysis of Crashes on Freeway Weaving Sections
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