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Roadside infrastructure for safer European roads: D05 Summary of European design - guidelines for roadside infrastructure
The purpose of this report is to identify the current state-of-the-art in Europe with
regards to roadside design guidelines. The analysis is limited to official national
documents and does not include all the policies that are practiced at national
and regional levels. All the information presented in this report is derived from
the national documents (Appendix A). It should be noted that the use of the
word design implies the prescribed layout of the roadside environment
(placement of light posts, geometry of slopes, installations of road restraint
systems. The term design does not imply the specification of system
components (guardrail metal thickness, bolt sizes on break-away poles, etc.).
The report is divided into six chapters that represent the main issues to be
addressed in the analysis and design of roadsides for the purpose of improving
safety. The first two chapters describe the concepts of the Safety Zone and the
Recovery Zone. These describe the area beside the road travel lanes that are
subject to the roadside design process. The third section describes the types of
common obstacles / hazards that must be identified in the roadside. The
remaining chapters cover the specifications of road restraint systems, as they
are reported in the existing guidelines.
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NAING, C.L. and HILL, J., 2003. Roadside infrastructure for safer European roads: D05 Summary of European design - guidelines for roadside infrastructure. Project RISER, European CommunityPublication date
2003Notes
This Project was funded by the European Community under the ‘Competitive and Sustainable Growth’ Programme (1998-2002).Language
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