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Devising Devices for Highway Safety


AP-115 Technologies for Traffic Signal Compliance
AP-175 Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing Handbook Update
TE-11 Ice Detection and Weather Information Systems
TE-24 Field Evaluation of Breakaway Timber Utility Poles
TE-25 Strategic Highway Research Program Work Zone Safety Devices
TE-29 Retroreflectivity
TE-37 Advanced Technology Patrol Car

The safety hardware technology group assesses, refines, and promotes the use of new and/or improved safety devices that have the potential to make roadways safer for the driving public and the highway worker. Examples of such devices include changeable message signs, breakaway devices for sign supports and utility poles, attenuators, barriers, crash cushions, and advance warning devices at work zones.

Meeting the needs of the growing population of older drivers is a challenge, as are maintaining sophisticated safety hardware properly, developing guidelines that mark the end of useful life of highway markings, and protecting highway workers as our Nation begins to repair its transportation infrastructure.

A major SHRP implementation effort has been underway during the past year. The SHRP Work-Zone Safety Devices have been showcased and demonstrated at national conferences. FHWA provided technical assistance and encouraged trial use of these products in State highway agencies.


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