DESIGN AND TESTING OF ROADSIDE SAFETY DEVICES

This Record contains the following 17 papers on roadway safety features: Movable Concrete Median Barrier Risk Analysis, J.E. Bryden and N.J. Bruno; High Containment Steel Bridge Parapet With Transition to a Safety Fence, I.B. Laker; Delineation of Urban Freeway Gore Area Crash Cushions in Texas, F.T. Creasey, G.L. Ullman, and C.L. Dudek; Development of Guardrail Extruder Terminal, D.L. Sicking, A.B. Qureshy, and H.E. Ross, Jr.; Connecticut Narrow Hazard Crash Cushion, J.F. Carney, III; Vehicle Impact Testing of Lightweight Lighting Standards, R.L. Stoughton, A. Abghari, J.P. Dusel, J.L. Hedgecock, and D.L. Glauz; Development of a Slotted-Rail Breakaway Cable Terminal, D.L. Sicking, A.B. Qureshy, and H.E. Ross, Jr.; Validation of a Surrogate Vehicle for Luminaire Support Certification Testing, A.G. Hansen, M.W. Hargrave, and C.R. Hott; Computer-Based Methodolgy for the Generalized Design of the Connecticut Impact Attenuation System, D.S. Logie, J.F. Carney, III, and M.H. Ray; Field Study to Establish Truck Escape Ramp Design Methodology, J.C. Wambold; Development of an Improved Highway-Vehicle-Object-Simulation Model for Multi-Faced Rigid Barriers, H.S. Perera; Applications of Barrier VII in Design of Flexible Barriers, R.P. Bligh and D.L. Sicking; Prediction of Rollovers Caused by Concrete Safety-Shape Barriers, H.S. Perera and H.E. Ross, Jr.; Improved Method for Determining Vehicle and Occupant Kinematics in Full-Scale Crash Tests, M.H. Ray and J.F. Carney, III; Development of Kansas Guardrail to Bridgerail Transition Designs Using BARRIER VII, C.Y. Tuan, E.R. Post, S. Ataullah, and J.O. Brewer; Case Study: Poles in the Urban Clear Zone, D.S. Turner and T. Barnett; and Survey of State Utility Manual Clear Zone Provisions, D.S. Turner, J.V. Walters, J.M. Hutt and J.E. Patrick.

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• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 183 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1233
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Breakaway supports; Bridge railings; Crash cushions; Crash tests; Crashes; Escape lanes; Freeways; Gore area; Guardrail terminals; Guardrails; Highway delineators; Kinematics; Lighting columns; Luminaires; Median barriers; Parapets; Poles (Supports); Roadside; Rollover crashes; Safety; Simulation; Test vehicles; Testing; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Barriers; Breakaway cable terminals; Delineation; Transition zones
• Old TRIS Terms: Concrete safety shapes; Gore; Urban freeways
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00620476
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• ISBN: 0-309-05005-7
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 098
• Files: HSL, TRB, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 31 1992 12:00AM