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Roadside Safety Features and Hydraulic, Hydrology, and Water Quality Issues


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Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Evaluation of portable concrete barriers using finite element simulation (Marzougi, D, Bahouth, G, Eskandarian, A, Meczkowski and Taylor, H); Impact performance of the G4(1W) and G4(2W) guardrail systems : comparison under NCHRP report 350 test 3-11 conditions (Plaxico, CA, Ray, MH and Hiranmayee, K); Long-span guardrail system for culvert applications (Faller, RK, Sicking, DL, Polivka, KA, Rohde, JR and Bielenberg, BW); Transitions from guardrail to bridge rail that meet safety performance requirements (Buth, CE, Menges, WL, and Bligh, RP); Performance of breakaway cable and modified eccentric loader terminals in Iowa and North Carolina : in-service evaluation (Ray, MH and Hopp, JA); Safety effectiveness of upgrading guardrail terminals to NCHRP reports 350 standards (Ray, MH); Design and development of steel breakaway posts (Sicking, DL, Rohde, JR and Reid, JD); Evaluating human risk in side impact collisions with roadside objects (Ray, MH and Hiranmayee, K); In-service, performance-based roadside design policy : preliminary insights from Washington State's bridge rail study (Shankar, VN, Albin, RB, Milton, JC and Nebergall, M); Test level 4 bridge rails (Buth, CE, Menges, WL and Williams, WF); Estimation of time of concentration for Maryland streams (Thomas, WO, Monde, MC and Davis, SR); Temporal variations in heavy metal partitioning and loading in urban highway pavement sheet flow : implications for in situ treatment design (Sansalone, JJ and Glenn, DW); California Department of Transportation statewide storm water management program (Johnston, J, Yamaguchi, H and Frankel, A).




Roadside Design Guide


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"The Roadside Design Guide presents a synthesis of current information and operating practices related to roadside safety and is written in dual units-metric and U.S. Customary. This book is a guide. It is not a standard, nor is it a design policy. It is intended to use as a resource document from which individual highway agencies can develop standards and policies. Although much of the material in the guide can be considered universal in its application, several recommendations are subjective in nature and may need modification to fit local conditions. However, it is important that significant deviations from the guide be based on operational experience and objective analysis. The 2011 edition of the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide has been updated to include hardware that has met the evaluation criteria contained in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350: Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation of Highway Features and begins to detail the most current evaluation criteria contained under the Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, 2009 (MASH). For the most part, roadside hardware tested and accepted under older guidelines that are no longer applicable has not been excluded in this edition." -- AASHTO website.




Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, 2009


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In-service Performance of Traffic Barriers


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"This is a report on a research agenda to better inform future societal decisions on ocean CDR [carbon dioxide removal]; the Committee is not advocating either for or against possible future ocean CDR deployments, and the Committee recognizes that ocean CDR would, at best, complement the role of climate mitigation approaches including decarbonization"--Page viii.