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Rural Road Safety
Highway Safety: Federal and State Efforts to Address Rural
Road Safety Challenges, Government Accounting Office, May 2004.
GAO-04-663.
www.gao.gov/new.items/d04663.pdf
Analysis of rural intersection accidents caused by stop sign violation and failure to yield the right-of-way, Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas State University, the University of Kansas (2000)
- Summary: /exit.php?launch=ntl.bts.gov/lib/24000/24700/24737/KSU-99-5_summ-rep.pdf
- Full Report: /exit.php?launch=ntl.bts.gov/data/letter_ak/KSU-98-6.pdf
Reducing Crashes at Controlled Rural Intersections, K.
Harder, J. Bloomfield, & B. Chihak. Minnesota Department of
Transportation, Mn/DOT Report No. 2003-15 (2003)
www.lrrb.gen.mn.us/PDF/200315.pdf
National Highway Safety Administration
www.nhtsa.dot.gov
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
www.highwaysafety.org/default.htm
Toward Zero Deaths program
www.minnesotatzd.org
Transportation-Related Technology for Rural Areas
Best Practices of Rural and Statewide ITS Strategic Planning (2002)
www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/jpodocs/repts_te/13608.pdf
The Safety Applications of ITS in Rural Areas, Federal
Highway Administration (2002)
www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/jpodocs/repts_te/13609.html
Rural ITS Solutions: Rural ITS Toolbox, Federal Highway Administration
(2001)
www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/jpodocs/repts_te/13477.html
Rural ITS User Needs, Federal Highway Administration (1999)
www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/jpodocs/repts_te/7RJ01!.pdf
USDOT ITS Joint Program Office – Rural and Statewide ITS
Section
www.its.dot.gov/rural_its.htm
ITS Cooperative Deployment Network (ICDN)
www.nawgits.com/jpo/icdn.html
Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University
of Minnesota
www.its.umn.edu
FHWA/FTA Transportation Capacity Building Initiative – Rural
& Small Community Transportation Planning
www.planning.dot.gov/rural.asp
Technology in Rural Transportation: "Simple Solutions,"
Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-RD-97-108 (1997)
www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/jpodocs/repts_te/2FC01!.pdf
Trends in Rural Transportation
RuralTransportation.org
The National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National Association
of Development Organizations (NADO) created this "resource
tool for rural transportation stakeholders, including local elected
officials and regional development professionals."
www.ruraltransportation.org
Enhancing America's Communities: A Guide to Transportation
Enhancements
Federal Highway Administration, 2002
/exit.php?launch=www.enhancements.org/misc/TEGuide2002.pdf
Rural and Agricultural Transportation: Data & Information Resources
–National Transportation Library
/exit.php?launch=ntl.bts.gov/ruraltransport/
Small Communities Benefits: Innovative Traffic Management Practices
in Small Communities Federal Highway Administration. (2002)
www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/jpodocs/repts_te/13612.html
Serving Rural America – FHWA Office of Planning
and Environment (2001)
www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/rural/ruralamerica/index.html
Will Increased Highway Funding Help Rural Areas? Dennis
Brown, Economic Research Service, US Dept. of Agriculture. Agriculture
Information Bulletin No. 753. 24 pp. (1999)
www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib753/index.htm
Rural Transportation History
The Trip to Town: Rural Transportation Patterns and Developments
Since 1900, Peter Schauer, TR News, March-April
2003.
trb.org/publications/trnews/trnews225_p6-13.pdf