Technical Indicators and Safety Design of Freeway in High Altitude Area

Jianbei Liu is the director of Intelligent Transport and Smart City Research Institute, CCCC First Highway Consultants Co., Ltd. She is a Ph.D. student majoring in Traffic Engineering at Tongji University, and received a master’s degree in Highway Engineering from Chang’an University in Xi’an, China. She has been working on highway design, interchange design, traffic safety research, and digital technology application for the past decade years. Due to her outstanding contributions, Dr. Liu has taken charge of a number of national and provincial projects and received great awards. Combining technical research and engineering design, she has published more than 30 papers on highway safety and highway geometry design, 7 standard specifications on highway construction, and 20 national/provincial scientific research projects.

• Introduction.- The characteristics of traffic operation in high altitude areas.- Dynamic features of typical vehicles under low pressure and oxygen deficient environment in high altitude areas.- Characteristics of psychophysiological change of drivers in the low pressure and oxygen deficient environment in high altitude regions.