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Geometric designs of highway and highway safety have got major attention in US in late 1980s, so a five-year
series of session on practice of five geometric design parameter: sight distance, interchanges, intersections,
alignment and cross-section is launched by The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committees on
Geometric Design and Operational Effects of Geometric Design. Later FHWA (Federal Highway
Administration) selected Highway safety Design Practice and Criteria as most important research and
development area whose aim was to develop an integrated design process that systematically takes care both
oadway and roadside in developing cost-effective and safe highway design alternatives.
Interactive Highway Safety Design Model or IHSDM is a suite of software analysis tools to determine safety
and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highway. This model helps to check proposed or
existing highway design against relevant design policy value as well as provides estimates of a design’s
expected safety and operational performance. Results of IHSDM support decision-making in highway design
process and help manager, project planner, designers, and reviewers in state or local highway agencies &
consulting firms to clarify decisions taken in geometric design.
The objectives of Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) are a) to integrate all safety research
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