SPR-4541: Roadside Barrier End Treatments: Safety Evaluation of INDOT Inventory Inventory and Practices

This project will establish a basis for state-specific end treatment selection guidelines applicable to various traffic and road conditions: speed, motor vehicle volume, presence of heavy trucks and motorcycles, available space, barrier end location. The guidelines will promote most effective solutions while reducing the number of treatment types to improve their maintenance. The cost effectiveness will consider the reduction in crash severity and frequency and the cost of end treatment alternatives within the life cycle analysis for new installation or for replacement of existing ones.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $157127
• Contract Numbers:

  SPR-4541

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Purdue University/Indiana Department of Transportation JHRP

  Purdue University
  1284 Civil Engineering Building, Room 4154
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-1284
• Principal Investigators:

  Tarko, Andrew

  Romero, Mario

• Start Date: 20200701
• Expected Completion Date: 20221031
• Actual Completion Date: 20221031

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Cost effectiveness; Crash severity; Guidelines; Life cycle analysis
• Identifier Terms: Indiana Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01745562
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Indiana Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: SPR-4541
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 20 2020 12:57PM