CMF / CRF Details

CMF ID: 7879

Improve pavement friction (Chip Seal)

Description: Chip seal treatment to improve pavement friction

Prior Condition:  Untreated pavements

Category: Roadway

Study: Evaluation of Pavement Safety Performance, Merritt et al., 2015

 
Star Quality Rating:3 Stars  [View score details]
Rating Points Total:100
Crash Modification Factor (CMF)
Value:1.015
Adjusted Standard Error:
Unadjusted Standard Error:0.063
Crash Reduction Factor (CRF)
Value:-1.5  (This value indicates an increase in crashes)
Adjusted Standard Error:
Unadjusted Standard Error:6.3
Applicability
Crash Type:Wet road
Crash Severity:All
Roadway Types:Not specified
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Crash Weather:Wet road
Road Division Type:All
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Area Type:All
Traffic Volume:Minimum of 170 to Maximum of 24792 Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)
Average Traffic Volume:2751 Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)
Time of Day:Not specified
If countermeasure is intersection-based
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Development Details
Date Range of Data Used:2000 to 2011
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State:NC,PA
Country:USA
Type of Methodology Used:Before/after using empirical Bayes or full Bayes
Other Details
Included in Highway Safety Manual?No
Date Added to Clearinghouse:Nov 01, 2015
Comments:CMF for Single layer Chip seal treatment, wet-road crashes (PA and NC), All years of the after period The number of crashes in the after period were not reported in this study, however, they have been recorded as 300 to give 10 points as a beneift of doubt for one or more of the following: (1) number of miles/sites in the reference/treatment group, (2) number of crashes in the references/treatment group, (3) reporting AADTs for the aggregate dataset but not for the disaggragate dataset used for CMF development.