National In-Service Performance Evaluation Guidelines for Defining Acceptable Roadside Safety Hardware

A recurring theme in tests conducted and evaluation procedures formulated over the last 40 years has been the recommendation to conduct in-service performance evaluations (ISPEs) of roadside safety features. The laboratory performance of roadside safety hardware is tested and evaluated using criteria published in the AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH). The site location and installation of roadside safety hardware are guided by criteria published in the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide (RDG). ISPE criteria have become available under NCHRP Research Report 1010: In-Service Performance Evaluation: Guidelines for the Assembly and Analysis of Data. Research is needed to develop guidelines, at the national level, for defining acceptable field performance of roadside safety hardware. The objective of this research is to develop ISPE guidelines to define and recommend nationally acceptable field performance criteria for roadside safety hardware based on NCHRP Research Report 1010.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5357

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $400000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 22-58

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Turner, Anne-Marie

• Performing Organizations:

  Roadsafe LLC

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• Principal Investigators:

  Carrigan, Christine

• Start Date: 20240601
• Expected Completion Date: 20270531
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Crashworthiness; Field studies; Guidelines; Highway safety; Performance measurement; Roadside
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01847443
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 22-58
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 27 2022 11:27AM