文档介绍：North Carolina Driver Education Resource Guide
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
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Highway Transportation System (HTS)
The HTS is a sub-system of the national transportation posed of many man/machine/binations interacting in a loosely coordinated fashion
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ponents of the HTS
Man
Machines
Environment that they operate in
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Goal of the HTS
To provide safe, rapid and efficient transportation of persons and goods to a desired destination, in an environmentally sound fashion.
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Safe, rapid and efficient travel
There has to be a balance between safe, rapid, and efficient travel. There is a balance between speed and safety, the faster we allow people to drive, the more speed related deaths. The more left turn yield traffic lights, the more accidents at those intersections. Right turn on red produces more accidents.
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Death Rate on US Highways
deaths per 100, miles traveled (1999)
Nearly 42,000 motor vehicle related deaths in the US in 1999
16,000 were alcohol related (%)
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Users of the HTS
Cars/SUVs-50% of all new vehicle sales
Large trucks-3%
Buses (safest means of highway transportation)
Motorcycles (most dangerous type of highway transportation)
Bicycles (***@750 deaths in the US ea