Committee on In-Service Performance of
Energy-absorbing W-beam Guardrail End Treatments: Phase 1
An ad hoc committee will develop an
appropriate research design for evaluating the in-service crash performance of
the more common energy-absorbing W-beam guardrail end treatments currently
installed throughout the United States. The study will also determine the data
required to carry out the analysis and include exploratory work in selected
states to determine whether the required data, either retrospective or
prospective, would be available in sufficient quantity and quality to allow
meaningful inferences to be drawn about in-service performance of end treatments
collectively and individually. Based on the results from the exploratory work,
the committee will identify appropriate next steps for either gathering data or,
should it appear unlikely that the necessary data would become available, advise
states on the existing process of conducting in-service evaluations of guardrail
end treatments
Committee Membership
Chair
James Hugh W. McGee
Highway Safety Consultant
Members
Linda Ng Boyle
Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental
University of Washington
James E. Bryden
Independent Consultant
Douglas J. Gabauer
Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bucknell University
Shauna Hallmark
Professor of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering
Director, Institute of Transportation
Iowa State University
David Harkey
Director, Highway Safety Research Center
University of North Carolina
Douglas Harwood
Program Director, Transportation Research Center
MRIGlobal
Thomas Hicks
Director, Business Development
Century Engineering, Inc.
Cing-Dao Kan
Professor
Director, Center for Collision Safety and Analysis
George Mason University
Susan Martinovich
Director
CH2M Hill
Priyaranjan Prasad
Independent Consultant
C. Shane Reese
Professor of Statistics
Brigham Young University
Omar Smadi
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering
Research Scientist, Center for Transportation Research & Education
Iowa State University
Committee Updates
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