highway striping
highway striping
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What is the best resource to design highway striping?
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RE: highway striping
RE: highway striping
MUTCD is a good place to start, if you are referring to location of placement criteria. FHWA website.
Who you are designing "for" should have standards that will dictate your parameters. We have standards for: Freeways, two lane, TWLTL, Divided Highway, Super 2, etc. and so on.
And of course there is quite a bit of variance on how organizations want it done with regard to materials. Is your rdwy. concrete, ACP, OCST? This will make a difference as to materials.
Hope this helps.
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RE: highway striping
Hey Drumchaser,
Just as a point of interest, we also have a document called the MUTCD here in Australia. Ours stands for Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, if yours stands for the same I guess someone somewhere has done some plagiarism. Then again it could be just a case of like minds chasing the same endeavour will come up with the same result.
Apologies to jmcsummit, I'm not trying to hijack your thread.
Cheers
Michael
RE: highway striping
Yes, several if not all states have their own MUTCD, which is based on the (US) Federal Highway Administration MUTCD, which is the standard.
Cities, counties, utility co.s, and municipalities are supposed to follow these guidelines (actually anyone on the roadway) but they seldom do.
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RE: highway striping
Most state highway DOT's have test areas for different paint products and results of how well it holds up. That should be public information and may help get a good job for you.