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Temporary center stripe pavement markings in newly resurfaced zones were selected to study driver visibility as a function of the degree of pavement marking obliteration. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) specifies 0.1-m-wide retroreflective single dashed yellow stripes with a gap/stripe ratio of 10.98/1.22 m as minimum temporary center stripes in resurfaced zones. The study also investigated the begin and end detection distances of double-dashed (10.98/1.22 m) 0.05-m-wide yellow retroreflective center stripes. Such thin double stripes could be used (same amount of material) to actually indicate to a driver whether the traveled section of the newly resurfaced road is a passing or no-passing section by using the double-dashed pattern as a coding mechanism. The center stripe pavement marking treatments were randomly obliterated by removing 0, 50, and 75% of the retroreflective material from the stripes. Overall, it is possible to conclude that severe obliteration reduces the begin and end detection distance to a considerable degree. However, using four times less material and the shortest specified stripe length (10.98/1.22 m) reduces, for example, the 85th percentile begin and end detection distances from about 53 to 30 m. Therefore, from a begin or end detection distance point of view, if the nonobliterated center-line pavement marking treatment provides barely adequate visibility performance it may not be possible to tolerate much obliteration at all (more than 5 to 10%) before the visibility performance of the overall system (driver-vehicle-center stripe system) falls below the acceptable minimum safety level.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1495, Traffic Control Devices, Visibility, and Railroad Grade Crossings. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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p. 77-86

1995

Transportation Research Record

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Figures (5) ; References (8) ; Tables (2)

Center lines; Highway safety; Lane lines; Resurfacing; Road markings; Visibility; Visibility distance; Width; Yellow

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

Temporary

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB

Dec 12 1995 12:00AM

• APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO RAIL-HIGHWAY GRADE CROSSING SAFETY
• COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ADVANCE WARNING SIGNS AT HIGH SPEED SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• CURVE RADIUS PERCEPTION ACCURACY AS FUNCTION OF NUMBER OF DELINEATION DEVICES (CHEVRONS)
• DETECTABILITY OF PAVEMENT MARKINGS UNDER STATIONARY AND DYNAMIC CONDITIONS AS A FUNCTION OF RETROREFLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS
• EFFECTIVE USE OF VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGNS: LESSONS LEARNED THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF USERS' MANUALS
• EFFECTS OF LATERAL SEPARATION BETWEEN DOUBLE CENTER-STRIPE PAVEMENT MARKINGS ON VISIBILITY UNDER NIGHTTIME DRIVING CONDITIONS
• EFFECTS OF PAVEMENT MARKINGS ON DRIVER BEHAVIOR AT FREEWAY LANE DROP EXITS
• EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS AT TWO-WAY STOP-CONTROLLED INTERSECTIONS IN ALASKA
• EVALUATION OF ACCURACY OF U.S. DOT RAIL-HIGHWAY GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS
• EVALUATION OF PROPOSED MINIMUM RETROREFLECTIVITY REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAFFIC SIGNS
• EVALUATION OF STROBE LIGHTS IN RED LENS OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS
• HIGH-VOLUME PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK TIME REQUIREMENTS
• KNOWLEDGE-BASED PERSONAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR APPLYING AND PLACING CURVE DELINEATION DEVICES
• LOSS OF VISIBILITY DISTANCE CAUSED BY AUTOMOBILE WINDSHIELDS AT NIGHT
• MOTORIST INTERPRETATION OF YELLOW X AND YELLOW DIAGONAL ARROW IN FREEWAY LANE CONTROL SIGNAL ARRAY
• TRAFFIC SIGN READING DISTANCES AND TIMES DURING NIGHT DRIVING
• VISIBILITY OF NEW PAVEMENT MARKINGS AT NIGHT UNDER LOW-BEAM ILLUMINATION
• YELLOW PAVEMENT MARKINGS WITH YELLOW NIGHTTIME COLOR