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Briefs, Digests, and Syntheses
Color Effectiveness of Yellow Pavement Marking Materials
(Transportation Research Board, Research Results Digest 328)
This digest explores a range of chromaticity coordinates that observers classify as yellow and white under daytime and incandescent illumination. www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?ID=9100
Brochures
Intersection Safety Strategies
(Federal Highway Administration, 2008)
This brochure is a quick reference to the countermeasures described in the NCHRP Report 500 volumes on reducing crashes at unsignalized (Volume 5) and signalized (Volume 12) intersections and is a supplement to individual guide sheets for each of the 77 countermeasures. http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersections/intsafestratbro (PDF, HTML)
Reports
A Guide to Small Sign Support Hardware
(AASHTO, ARTBA, AGC, AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Task Force 13)
A compilation of small sign support hardware, this document presents the stateof- the-art perspective and addresses crashworthiness features of small sign supports. This guide is the key reference for FHWA accepted breakaway ground-mounted sign supports. www.aashtotf13.org/Small-Sign-Support.asp
A Guide to Standardized Highway Barrier Hardware
(AASHTO, ARTBA, AGC, 2005 AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Task Force 13)
A publication that provides specifications for both highway barrier hardware and systems. Includes barrier systems test level designation for various highway barrier applications. Also provides individual component details and specifications as well as system details. http://aashtotf13.tamu.edu (PDF)
A Guide to Standardized Highway Drainage Products
(AASHTO, ARTBA, AGC, 1999 AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Task Force 13)
This guide supersedes the 1996 edition. It is intended to provide guidance and specifications for users of highway drainage products. www.aashtotf13.org/Standardized-Drainage-Products.asp
A Guide to Standardized Highway Lighting Pole Hardware
(AASHTO, ARTBA, AGC, 1980 AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Task Force 13)
Standard details and specifications are suggested in this publication for those lighting pole items that are widely used and have well-defined service requirements. www.aashtotf13.org/lighting-pole-hardware.asp
A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency
(TRB, 2008, NCHRP Report 525: Volume 13)
This guide provides recommended practices and procedures associated with traffic control on local and state roads during agricultural emergencies. http://trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=9580 (PDF)
Advanced Surveying and Mapping Technologies: Systems Overview & Application
(FHWA, 2008, FHWA-CFL/ TD-08-002)
This report presents a study, with resulting conclusions, to investigate emerging surveying and mapping technologies and their applicability to typical assignments of the Office of Federal Lands Highway (FLH) of the FHWA. www.cflhd.gov/techDevelopment/completed_projects/survey/index.cfm (PDF)
Multimodal Level of Service Analysis for Urban Streets
(TRB, 2008, NCHRP Report 616)
This report will be of interest to public agencies responsible for the planning, design, and operation of urban streets. This report provides a method for assessing how well an urban street serves the needs of all of its users: auto drivers, transit passengers, bicycle riders, and pedestrians. www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?ID=9470
Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan: Volume 20: A Guide for Reducing Head-On Crashes on Freeways
(TRB, 2008, NCHRP Report 500)
This 20th volume of NCHRP Report 500: Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan provides strategies that can be employed to reduce head-on crashes on freeways. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_500v20.pdf (PDF)
Modernize and Upgrade CANDE for Analysis and LRFD Design of Buried Structures
(TRB, 2008, NCHRP Report 619)
This report documents research performed to develop, modernize, and upgrade CANDE (Culvert ANalysis and DEsign). CANDE installation files are included on a CD-ROM with this report. www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?ID=9438