{"id":17485,"date":"2018-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=17485"},"modified":"2022-10-21T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:33:17","slug":"can-we-achieve-vision-zero-on-urban-roadway-work-zones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/presentations-and-papers\/carsp-conference-acpser-victoria-2018\/can-we-achieve-vision-zero-on-urban-roadway-work-zones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Achieve Vision Zero on Urban Roadway Work Zones?"},"content":{"rendered":"Author(s): Cox<\/p>\n<h2>Slidedeck Presentation Only (not available)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#ccc\"><\/div>\n<h2>Abstract:<\/h2>\n<p>These headlines show that distracted drivers continue to kill on Canada's highways:<\/p>\n<p>* \"Spike of catastrophic highway crashes due to truck driver inattentiveness\" Oct 26, 2017, Ontario Provincial Police<br \/>\n* \"One person dead after vehicle collides with construction equipment on QEW\" Nov 12, 2017, OPP<br \/>\n* \"1 man dead after car crashes into parked construction truck in St-Julie\" Jun 19, 2017, Securite du Quebec<\/p>\n<p>Highway work zones + distracted drivers are a fatal combination. This danger is heightened when the work zone closes a lane on a high-speed, high-volume urban highway.<\/p>\n<p>Temporary, portable rumble strips [TPRS] have proven to alert drivers in advance of highway work zones, minimizing the carnage noted above.<\/p>\n<p>* Understand the threat to road users caused by distracted \/ drowsy drivers<br \/>\n* Define temporary, portable rumble strips<br \/>\n* Review best practices of TPRS in urban, high-speed, high volume roadways * Policy makers charged with achieving 'Vision Zero'<br \/>\n* Designers of construction projects in urban, high-speed, high volume roadways<br \/>\n* Traffic safety professionals responsible for operation of urban roadways * Review human factors research on the effect of smart-phone use on driver capacity<\/p>\n<p>Present case studies of TPRS by:<br \/>\no Massachusetts DOT in the Greater Boston Area<br \/>\no Indiana DOT on Interstate 65<br \/>\no Texas DOT on Interstate 35 in the Central Texas Expansion project<br \/>\no Utah DOT on Interstate 15<br \/>\n* Review best practices for deployment of TPRS in high-speed, high-volume roadways<\/p>\n<p>The CARSP audience will:<br \/>\n* Understand that smart-phone users are impaired as if having 0.08 BAC<br \/>\n* Learn how TPRS alerts drivers to changing road conditions on urban highway work zones<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#ccc\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[342,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carsp-conference-acpser-victoria-2018","category-policy-and-practice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18315,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17485\/revisions\/18315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}