Roadside Design Resources

TDOT Roadside Safety Field Guide

Resource Charts

Technical Brief 1 - Guardrails at Intersections

Technical Brief 2 - Pre-Installation Field Review

Technical Brief 3 - Damage Assesment

Technical Brief 4 - End Treatments

Technical Brief 5 - In-Service Evaluation of Roadside Safety Features (ISER)

Length of Need Determination Spreadsheet

QPL 34 (NCHRP 350 Devices)

QPL 45 (MASH Devices)

FHWA Eligibility Letters

Roadway Departure Safety

NCHRP resources

 

Safety Countermeasures

Utility pole Safety

 

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

• FHWA Hardware Policy and Guidance
• FHWA Longitudinal Barriers
• FHWA Resource Charts
• NHTSA FARS website

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

• AASHTO, Roadside Design Guide, 2011
• Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 2009
• AASHTO, Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, 2016 (MASH16)
• AASHTO, Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, 2009 (MASH09)

Task Force 13 website

• Guide to Standardized Highway Barrier Hardware
• Guide to Standardized Bridge Rail HardwareW-Beam
• Guardrail Repair Guide
• Guide to Transitions

Roadside Safety Pooled Fund sites:

• MwRSF (Midwest Roadside Safety Facility)
  
• TTI (Texas A&M Transportation Institute)

• Research Projects
• NCHRP 500 Volume 6: A Guide for Addressing Run-Off-Road Collisions