Evaluate the Uses and Technology for Truck-Mounted Attenuators

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• Creators:
  Finley, Melisa D. ; Ruback, Leonard ; Ye, Fan
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A & M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Ohio. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Highway maintenance
  • Multilane highways
  • Safety management
  • Shadow vehicles
  • State of the practice
  • Traffic crashes
  • Truck mounted attenuators
  • Variable message signs
  • Tapers (Work zone traffic control)
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/OH-2020-19
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Ohio;United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Description:
  Mobile maintenance operations on multi-lane highways, such as pothole patching and sweeping, present unique safety challenges due to the highly variable conditions encountered. While the Ohio Department of Transportation and Ohio Turnpike currently have procedures for temporary traffic control for mobile maintenance operations, both agencies wanted to review these procedures and identify new strategies and technologies that could be used to improve the safety of these operations, especially those for shadow vehicles with impact attenuators (truck or trailer mounted). The research tasks included a review of the state of the practice, identification of potential safety improvements, field evaluation of select safety improvements, and development of a roll-ahead distance alarm.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  PID: 107305
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62779/dot_62779_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.11 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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