Phase I Assessment of Guardrail Length-of-need
Author : Francisco Daniel B. Albuquerque
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Author : Francisco Daniel B. Albuquerque
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Roads
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Author : American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside Safety
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Roads
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee for Study of In-Service Performance of W-Beam Guardrail End Treatments, Phase 1
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Roads
ISBN : 9780309441629
Study charge and origin -- Committee task -- Objectives of in-service evaluation -- Evaluation methods -- Organization of the report -- Methods of measuring performance: Comparative evaluations -- Descriptive evaluations -- Nationally coordinated evaluation research: Evaluation objectives -- Sources for evaluation procedures -- Validating crash test procedures -- Evaluation methods for routine highway agency use -- Impact of design, installation, and maintenance practices on performance -- Planning and organization -- Annex 3-1: summary of procedural guides to in-service evaluation of roadside safety devices -- Routine in-service evaluation of roadside devices -- Objectives of routine evaluations -- Obstacles to evaluation -- Strengthening highway agency capacity to conduct evaluations -- Conclusions and recommendation
Author : Karen Zhu
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781622600557
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has installed guardrail systems on interstate highways and other highways in accordance with a variety of standards throughout the years. Traffic volume has increased and the posted speeds have been raised on most INDOT's interstate highways. Consequently, the characteristics of run-off-the-road (ROR) crashes may have changed. In the meantime, material prices have increased considerably and the guardrail maintenance and crash repair costs have increased accordingly. There is no doubt all these changes will not only greatly affect the ROR crash prediction, but also greatly affect the guardrail benefit/cost analysis. This study examined the current use of roadside guardrails on INDOT intestates, State highways, and US highways, roadways, including types and lengths of guardrails, types and numbers of guardrail end treatments, and field guardrail positions. Based on the records of total 4657 ROR crashes occurred in 2004 and 2006, this study investigated the characteristics of ROR crashes, such as frequencies and locations of ROR crashes, crash consequences (number of vehicles involved, injuries and fatalities), and the effects of main factors, in particular roadway geometrics, seasons and traffic volume, on the highways of different classes. Furthermore, this study investigated the features of vehicle-guardrail crashes, including impact positions and corresponding frequencies and consequences. ROR crash predictions were examined in all aspects in this study, including encroachment rates, crash probabilities, and severity probabilities. It was found that the encroachment rates obtained by this study are less than those in the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide. This study evaluated the issues associated with the guardrail crash repair costs, such as parts costs, labor costs, and equipment costs.
Author : Ken Skorseth
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gravel roads
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The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.
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Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Impact
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This report describes a series of full-scale vehicular crash tests conducted to evaluate the impact performance of small sign supports used by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). The tests were conducted and evaluated in accordance with the recommendations of NCHRP Report 230 and the 1985 AASHTO "Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals."
Author : Jarvis Dale Michie
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Barrier installations are warranted (or justified) only at highway locations where the consequence of an errant vehicle leaving the roadway is judged to be more hazardous than the impact with the barrier installation. A six degree-of-freedom mathematical model was found to be useful in describing dynamic behavior of a vehicle during impact. Predictions of vehicle and barrier behavior correlated with results obtained from full-scale crash tests. Crash conditions simulated with a computer were used to identify and evaluate vehicle static and dynamic as well as barrier parameters. Vehicle weight, yaw mass moment of inertia, and deformation constant were found to be significant.
Author : Francisco Daniel B. Albuquerque
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Roadside cross-drainage culverts have been found to impact vehicle accident injury levels. Designers have commonly used three safety treatments to protect errant drivers from culvert accidents. These treatments have included: culvert extension, guardrail installation and grating. In order to define which safety treatment is the most appropriate, benefit-cost analysis has used accident cost reduction to estimate societal gains earned by using any safety treatment. The purpose of this study was to estimate accident costs for a wide range of roadway and roadside characteristics so that designers can calculate benefit/cost ratios for culvert safety treatment options under any particular scenario. This study began with conducting a parametric study in order to find variables which have significant impact on accident cost changes. The study proceeded with highway scenario modeling which included scenarios with different values for combinations of roadway and roadside variables. These variables were chosen based upon findings from the parametric study and their values were assigned based upon highway classification. This study shows that the use of different culvert safety treatments should be flexible to roadway and roadside characteristics. It also shows that culvert extension and grating were the safety treatments found to produce the lowest accident costs for all highway scenarios modeled. Therefore, it is believed that the expanded adoption of culvert extension and culvert grates can improve overall highway safety.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
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Author : King K. Mak
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 030915507X
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 665: Identification of Vehicular Impact Conditions Associated with Serious Ran-off-Road Crashes quantifies the characteristics of ran-off-road crashes and identifies appropriate impact conditions for use in full-scale crash testing.