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ceasing maintenance of pavement markings

ceasing maintenance of pavement markings

ceasing maintenance of pavement markings

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A question from a municipality...

A county that has been striping town roads for free will now be charging the towns for this service.  If a town can't pay to stripe all the roads it used to, how can it reduce striping with a minimum of liability risk?

It seems to me that a good engineering study should be able to help.  One question that occurred to me is this:

If a road that is currently striped has had a good safety history, how do you determine whether it is because of the markings, or it doesn't need markings because it is safe?

Is there any literature that discusses the crash reduction factor that can be expected from pavement markings?

I suppose one answer is to give priority to higher volume roads, and roads with crashes sueceptible to correction with markings, and assign lower priority to flat, straight low volume roads.

Any experience or references would be helpful.

RE: ceasing maintenance of pavement markings

Hi,

I have seen valuable information regarding your question on the book Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook from McGraw-Hill, chapter Fundamentals for the dimensions of the cross-sectional design elements.

Hope this helps,
Roberttx.

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