Highways Agency Report

             Shelfmark: SSR/TRL/MIS15
       Personal author: Kennedy J V
                 Title: Monitoring the effect on safety of reduced width lanes
             Publisher: Transport Research Laboratory, 1998
  Physical description: Variouspaging, charts
                 Price: Unpriced
                Series: Tender No 3/180
       Notes - general: Abstract: UK lane widths of 3.65m on motorways and on
                        dual carriageway roads are similar to those in other
                        European countries, which range from 3.5 tp 3.7m.
                        While this contributes to the good safety of UK roads,
                        reductions in lane width could lead to considerable
                        savings in construction costs and allow greater
                        flexibility in the use of existing roads.  For
                        example, the life of roads could be extended by
                        shifting the wheel-tracks of heavy goods vehicles
                        laterally across-section.  re-marking the position of
                        the running lanes would be easier if reduced width
                        lanes were acceptable.  It is this potential that the
                        report here investigates.
               Keyword: Motorways
               Keyword: Carriageway
               Keyword: Monitoring
 TRL MISCELLANEOUS REPORT
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