Pavement Marking Demonstration Projects: State of Alaska and State of Tennessee

This project evaluates the safety impacts, environmental impacts, and cost effectiveness of different pavement marking systems as well as the effect of State bidding and procurement processes on the quality of pavement marking material employed in highway projects. The findings indicate that States are pursuing alternative procurement strategies to provide high-quality durable markings in a cost effective manner, often as part of a strategic safety plan, while industry has responded to requirements for more environmentally benign materials. A multi-State retrospective crash analysis suggests that the use of 6-inch edge lines reduces several crash types on rural two-lane two-way roads as compared to 4-inch edge lines. The monitored performance of pavement markings installed as part of the demonstration project was used to evaluate pavement marking cost effectiveness. The same results were also used to populate a framework for a pavement marking selection tool.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/infrastructure/pavements/12048/12048.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute, College Station

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Science Applications International Corporation

  1710 SAIC Drive
  McLean, VA  United States  22102

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Safety Research and Development
  6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101-2296
• Authors:
  • Carlson, Paul
  • Park, Eun-Sug
  • Pike, Adam M
  • 0000-0002-5820-3084
  • Porter, R J
  • Miles, Jeffrey
  • Boulanger, Bryan
  • Smadi, Omar
  • Hawkins, Neal
  • Chalmers, Seth
  • Darmiento, Frank
  • Burde, Adrian
  • Kuhn, Beverly
  • Ealding, Wendy
• Publication Date: 2013-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 302p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competitive bidding; Cost effectiveness; Crash analysis; Demonstration projects; Edge lines; Environmental impacts; Highway safety; Procurement; Road marking materials; Road markings
• Geographic Terms: Alaska; Tennessee
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01502021
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HRT-12-048
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-05-D-00025; Task T-06-002
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 23 2013 7:53AM