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Safety Project Utilizing High Friction Surface Treatment at Spot Locations

Location Deadwood and Sioux Falls, SD

Curve in road

Award Recipient South Dakota Department of Transportation
Innovation High Friction Surface Treatments
Award Fiscal Year 2014
Project Aspect Construction
Description The objective of this project is to increase driver safety on four horizontal curves on South Dakota's State Highway System. The curves—two on US14A near Deadwood and two on I-229 in Sioux Falls—experience crash rates two to four times higher than average. Application of HFST increases pavement friction by bonding high strength aggregate and binder, and is expected to in turn reduce accidents. The specific goal of this project is to decrease runoff-the-road crashes at the four curves by at least 25%.
Grant Award $759,927
Duration/Status Project is complete and the report is available here.*
Project Contact Andy Vandel
Office of Project Development
South Dakota Department of Transportation
(605) 773-5727
Andy.Vandel@state.sd.us

*This material is based upon work supported by the Federal Highway Administration under a grant through the Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration program. The U.S. Government assumes no liability for the use of the information contained in this report. This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report do not reflect the views of the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Highway Administration does not endorse these materials.


Contact

Fawn Thompson
Program Coordinator
(404) 562-3917
Fawn.Thompson@dot.gov

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