Research Article

Driving Risk Affected Areas and Distribution Function of Sharp Horizontal Curves of Expressway

Table 3

Normalization processing results of crashes of SHCs.

CategoryMean (%)Standard deviationMinimum value (%)Maximum value (%)

Total1610.46044.44
Subsection 1 (affected area before entering SHC)12.233.838.3325.32
Subsection 2 (1st spiral curve)34.895.6716.6744.44
Subsection 3 (1st 1/2 circular curve)21.384.2412.533.33
Subsection 4 (2nd 1/2 circular curve)15.474.488.3330
Subsection 5 (2nd spiral curve)10.702.425.8816.67
Subsection 6 (affected area after exiting SHC)5.725.1018.18