Designing safer roadsides - a handbook for highway engineers

This publication considers the factors leading to improved roadside safety, the European standards for passive safety, the experience of Durham County Council, Scandinavian experience and practice, manufacturers' guidance on barriers, crash cushions, parapets, passively safe traffic signs, lighting columns, gantries and electrical safety, and ways of making traffic signs visible. The appendices provide a list of passively safe products and of sponsors and their services / products.

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• Authors:
  • DEBELL, C (
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 120p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Crash severity; Electricity; Highway design; Lighting columns; Parapets; Passive restraint systems; Road shoulders; Safety; Traffic signs
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 6954: Electricity; 2855: Highway design; 527: Lighting column; 3494: Parapet; 1466: Passive safety system; 2821: Roadside; 1665: Safety; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 553: Traffic sign; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01104763
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0707970997
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 17 2008 1:19PM