The model, Rural Highway Safety Advisor (RITA), is expected to expedite and standardize the conduct of highway safety analysis in the central and district offices of the Ohio Department of Transportation. RITA is an advisory knowledge-based expert system which codified within its knowledge base the procedures, techniques, and rules of thumb (heuristic) involved in the process of conducting highway safety analysis for rural (a) signalized intersections, (b) unsignalized intersections, and (c) non-intersections (highway segments). A panel of safety experts from ODOT with a cumulative experience of more than 100 years worked with the developers of the system to assure that the knowledge base was of the highest quality. RITA consists of the following four modules: (1) Preliminary Investigation, (2) Accident Analysis, (3) Suggest Engineering Studies, and (4) Suggest Feasible Countermeasures. The user can generate an individual report for each module or a combined report for all modules. A tutorial and a User's Guide is available for reference.
Rural Highway Safety Advisor (RITA). An Expert System for Highway Safety Analysis Advising (on Diskette)
1996
3 pages
Report
No indication
English
Road Transportation , Transportation Safety , Transportation , Models-simulation , Software , Rural highways , Highway safety , Knowledge based systems , Expert systems , Accident location , Highway accident potential , Highway intersections , Signalized intersections , Uncontrolled intersections , Accident prevention , Accident studies , Highway engineering , Transportation departments , Ohio , Diskettes
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