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CONSENSUS AND ADVISORY STUDIES
Consensus Studies
Review of Electronically Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) Brakes
Domestic Transportation of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Ethanol
Performance-Based Safety Regulation
Review of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Air Traffic Control: Symposium on Organizational Reform Options
Evaluation of the Federal Railroad Administration R&D Program
Future Interstate
Inland Waterways
Innovative Urban Mobility Services: Issues and Opportunities
In-Service Performance of Energy-absorbing W-beam Guardrail End Treatments: Phase 1
Intercity Passenger Travel: Opportunities and Issues in Short-haul Markets
Long Term Bridge Performance Committee LTBP
Long Term Pavement Performance LTPP
Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Safety Culture
Polar Icebreaker Cost Assessment
Propane Gas Pipeline Facilities
Railroad Transportation Regulation
Real Time Monitoring of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (Federal Highway Administration)
Review of USDOT Report on Connected Vehicle Initiative Communications Systems Deployment
Review of USDOT Truck Size and Weight Study
Strengthening the FMCSA R&T Program
Research and Technology Coordinating Committee Letter Reports
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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
 

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