DESCRIPTION:
This course provides an overview of the AASHTO "Roadside Design Guide." Emphasis is on current highway agency policies and practices. The AASHTO "Roadside Design Guide" is the textbook for this course. You may purchase a copy of the "Roadside Design Guide"
directly from the AASHTO bookstore at http://www.transportation.org/.
OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply the clear zone concept to all classes of roadways
- Recognize unsafe roadside design features and elements and make appropriate changes
- Identify the need for a traffic barrier
- Select, design and install a traffic barrier
- Apply safety concepts to roadside features and appurtenance selection/use in work zones
- Compare alternate safety treatments and select a cost-effective design
- Identify policies and practices that are inconsistent with current state-of-the-art
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Federal, State and local highway engineers involved in the formulation and/or application of policies and standards relating to the design of safer roadsides.
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The National Highway Institute (NHI) has been approved as an Authorized Provider
by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET),
1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. In obtaining this approval, NHI
has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standards which are widely
recognized as standards of good practice internationally. As a result of their Authorized
Provider membership status, NHI is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs
that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standards.
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