A COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE STUDY OF LONGITUDINAL ROADSIDE BARRIERS AND END TREATMENTS
For roadway/roadside design engineers and others interested in the performance of hardware, a persistent topic of interest has been the performance of various types of guardrails, median barriers, and end treatments, and the comparison of risk to the driver when striking a barrier length of need (LON) versus an end section. This topic was explored using the Longitudinal Barrier Special Study (LBSS) file developed in the 1980s for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Accident Sampling System (NASS) activity. Data were generated by NASS investigators working through various zone centers in the U.S. For an eligible case, detail far beyond routine police crash investigation was obtained, with barrier descriptors including items like post spacing, presence of block out, end treatment type, angle of impact, yawing angle, and barrier performance.
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Corporate Authors:
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Linköping, Sweden SE-581 95 -
Authors:
- Hunter, W W
- Stewart, J R
- Council, F M
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Conference:
- Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) and Traffic Safety on Two Continents, Proceedings of the Conference
- Location: Hague, Netherlands
- Date: 1993-9-22 to 1993-9-24
- Publication Date: 1994
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 121-142
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Crash tests; Guardrails; Median barriers; Roadside structures
- Identifier Terms: National Accident Sampling System
- Uncontrolled Terms: Comparative analysis; End treatments
- Old TRIS Terms: Barrier types
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00666087
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: VTI 1A, Part 1
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 8 1994 12:00AM