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https://doi.org/10.3141/1743-10

http://scholar.google.com...nges&publication_year=2001

In the mid-1960s, the New York State Department of Transportation developed a three-strand cable barrier that has several desirable characteristics as compared with other roadside barriers. This system was crash tested in accordance with the NCHRP Report 350 crash test criteria as a roadside barrier. In the roadside barrier, all three cables are placed on the traffic side of the posts. Since 1988, the AASHTO "Roadside Design Guide" has contained information on a cable median barrier design in which the middle cable is mounted on the opposite side of the posts so that it can contain and redirect vehicles that strike the system from either side. In the early 1990s, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) became interested in using this design for medians that are more than 10 m wide. WSDOT sponsored crash tests to evaluate the performance of this barrier, in accordance with NCHRP Report 350 criteria, with a small car and a pickup truck. In both tests, the vehicle was contained and brought to a stop. The occupant risk values were within the preferred limits set by NCHRP Report 350, and the damage to both vehicles was relatively minor.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1743, Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Quality; Roadside Safety Features.

English

p. 71-79

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072018

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Cables; Compact automobiles; Crash tests; Median barriers; Performance evaluations; Pickup trucks

NCHRP Report 350

Washington (State)

Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Aug 15 2001 12:00AM

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• COMPLIANCE TESTING OF A BULLNOSE MEDIAN BARRIER SYSTEM: NCHRP REPORT 350
• CONSIDERATION OF STREAM MORPHOLOGY IN CULVERT AND BRIDGE DESIGN
• DEVELOPMENT OF TWO TEST LEVEL 2 BRIDGE RAILINGS AND TRANSITIONS FOR USE ON TRANSVERSE GLUE-LAMINATED BECK BRIDGES
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR MATERIALS ON SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER: DETAILED EVALUATION OF WASTE-AMENDED HIGHWAY MATERIALS
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR MATERIALS ON SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER: SCREENING AND EVALUATION METHODOLOGY
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF RUNOFF FROM HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR MATERIALS: PROJECT OVERVIEW
• ESTIMATION AND INTERNET-BASED DISSEMINATION OF EXTREME RAINFALL INFORMATION
• IMPROVEMENTS TO THE WEAK-POST W-BEAM GUARDRAIL
• PERFORMANCE OF W-BEAM SPLICES
• RESULTS OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION LITTER MANAGEMENT PILOT STUDY
• SELECTION OF ROADSIDE SAFETY BARRIER CONTAINMENT LEVEL ACCORDING TO EUROPEAN UNION STANDARDS
• STEP-POOL MORPHOLOGY IN HIGH-GRADIENT COUNTERSUNK CULVERTS
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• UNREPORTED COLLISIONS WITH POST-AND-BEAM GUARDRAILS IN CONNECTICUT, IOWA, AND NORTH CAROLINA
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