Aesthetic Concrete Barrier Design (2006) / Chapter Skim
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The basic philosophical intent of creating highway aesthetics is to balance the safety and mobility needs of the transportation systems with the human need for a sense of community and aesthetic satisfaction. Both the FHWA and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
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becomes more cluttered, the conspicuousness of traffic control devices worsened.(13) This condition is termed visual complexity and occurs when the background and the number of objects in the scene combine to the point of creating an information load that is excessive, confusing, or ambiguous.(14)
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The most common type of concrete barrier being used was the New Jersey or F-shape barrier (68%) , with the Kansas Corral coming in a distant second (7%)
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Caltrans provided crash test reports, 16-mm film, and videos for analysis of their research effort to develop design guidelines for single-slope and vertical-face concrete barriers. MwRSF provided crash test reports of aesthetic concrete barriers and steel rails.
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Photographs provided by Autostrade are shown in Figures 5 and 6. Both installations are types of safety shape concrete barriers.
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13 Figure 5. New Jersey barrier used in Rome.
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Figure 7. Concrete barriers used in the United Kingdom.
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15 Figure 9. GPLINK concrete barrier.
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