Safety Evaluation of Continuous Green T Intersections

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This report was prepared for FHWA’s Office of Safety Research and Development under Contract DTFH61-13-D-00001. The FHWA Contracting Officer’s Representative for this project was Roya Amjadi.

The project team gratefully acknowledges the participation of the following organizations for their assistance in this study:

• FDOT.
• SCDOT.

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