In-service performance evaluation of guardrail end treatments /

In-Service Performance Evaluation of Guardrail End Treatments develops a research design for evaluating the in-service performance of guardrail end treatments and other roadside safety devices and identifies the data required to do so. Given the substantial data requirements and methodological chall...

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Corporate 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 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2018]
Series:Special report (National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board) ; 323.
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Summary:In-Service Performance Evaluation of Guardrail End Treatments develops a research design for evaluating the in-service performance of guardrail end treatments and other roadside safety devices and identifies the data required to do so. Given the substantial data requirements and methodological challenges of conducting successful evaluations of particular end treatments, the committee concludes that state highway agencies will require more information about the benefits, costs and practicality of routine in-service evaluation of end treatments in general before deciding to undertake new data collection and analysis programs necessary to carry out more challenging analyses. The committee recommends research to advance practice and test the feasibility of and costs associated with more complex evaluations. It also recommends research to examine whether procedures for testing the performance of devices should be altered.
Physical Description:ix,133 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309460200
0309460204
9780309441629
0309441625