Small Car Interactions with Roadside Barriers Volume 1: Engineering Evaluation

Details

• Creators:
  Woods, Donald L.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Statistical analysis
  • Traffic crashes
  • Barriers (Roads)
  • Roadside
  • Vehicles
  • Evaluation
  • Data collection
  • Vehicle size
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-85/+333-lF
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas ; United States
• Edition:
  Final Report: September 1984 - January 1985
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Abstract:
  A detailed statistical analysis of Texas roadside barrier accidents in comparison with another state which uses the nationally accepted guard fence standard was conducted. Snagging on the unblocked out system used in Texas was not an obvious problem based on this data set, although vehicles under 2500 pounds in curb weight did have a 9 percent greater probability of rollover. The w-beam barrier redirects about 65 percent of the impacting vehicles and the expected increased severity with decreasing vehicle curb weight upon impact with a concrete safety shape could not be tested due to the very small number of concrete safety shape impacts in the Texas data set.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  2-18-84-333
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/85857/dot_85857_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.90 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7cdaefad6bee5cab7bcfb8220f1efd7fcfc3d24e22975db1c38ae38b7b59c50d2345dfdb9d282a934ce5d77a81f25558944645877da43ada06d8a7b51243cfaf