{"id":801,"date":"2017-06-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/06\/22\/road-building-trend-3-key-elements-of-reduced-conflict-intersections\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:30:00","slug":"road-building-trend-3-key-elements-of-reduced-conflict-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/road-building-trend-3-key-elements-of-reduced-conflict-intersections\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Building Trend. 3 Key Elements of Reduced Conflict Intersections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is deploying\u00a0<strong>Reduced Conflict Intersection<\/strong>s to <strong>increase traffic safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reduced Conflict Intersections are employed on multi-lane highway intersections and offer <strong>increased safety by<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>limiting turns to right from a smaller roadway onto a higher speed road<\/li>\n<li>allowing for\u00a0u-turn at an opening in the median<\/li>\n<li>prohibiting left turns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>safety data for reduced conflict intersections shows<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100% reduction of fatal and serious injury right-angle crashes<\/li>\n<li>77% fewer all severity right-angle crashes<\/li>\n<li>50% reduction of injury crashes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/roadwork\/rci\/docs\/trafficsafetyatrcistudy.pdf\">Minnesota Department of Transportation | Reduced Conflict Intersection Safety Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentworld.com\/mndot-intersections-on-multi-lane-highways-are-saving-lives\/\">Equipment World&#8217;s Better Roads |\u00a0MnDOT: Intersections on multi-lane highways are saving lives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is deploying\u00a0<strong>Reduced Conflict Intersection<\/strong>s to <strong>increase traffic safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reduced Conflict Intersections are employed on multi-lane highway intersections and offer <strong>increased safety by<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>limiting turns to right from a smaller roadway onto a higher speed road<\/li>\n<li>allowing for\u00a0u-turn at an opening in the median<\/li>\n<li>prohibiting left turns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>safety data for reduced conflict intersections shows<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100% reduction of fatal and serious injury right-angle crashes<\/li>\n<li>77% fewer all severity right-angle\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulatory-trend","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}