Evaluation of Surface Mounted Median Guardrail [Project Summary]

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• Creators:
  Bligh, Roger P.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Crashworthiness Guardrails Impact Tests Median Barriers
• Publication/ Report Number:
  0-7052
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Contracting Officer:
  Sheikh, Nauman M
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  Median barriers are commonly used in areas that have high average daily traffic or where there is a higher chance of a vehicle intruding into opposing lanes due to curves or other geometric features. Most median barriers are concrete barriers, which are generally expensive to construct. A metal-rail median guardrail has the potential to reduce construction costs. In many urban and high-traffic-volume roadways, a median with soil is not available. This limits the use of existing median guardrail systems since they require metal posts to be embedded in soil.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:75a23d625ffb72cce05b0be96cac6ef0625955fb0a6e85bcac80e34363096097
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62468/dot_62468_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 307.15 KB ]