The documents accessible through this homepage are provided as a public service to the roadside hardware community. AASHTO, ARTBA and AGC do not copyright these materials so they may be copied and redistributed without restrictions. AASHTO-ARTBA-ACG Task Force 13 of Joint Committee on Materials is responsible for maintaining the contents of the Guide and the published guide should be considered the only "official" version of the Hardware Guide. This site is not an official AASHTO site nor does the presence or absence of anything on this site imply acceptance or rejection by AASHTO or Task Force 13.
The following documents are available through this site. This site makes extensive use of the PDF document format. If you need a copy of the free Acrobat PDF viewer go to http://www.acrobat.com. The individual drawing pages have not been cross link within the main PDF document. To look at a particular drawing, look it up in the table of contents below and select the appropriate file. All the drawings are available on this page but only some of the specification pages have been converted.
In 1989 the
National Cooperative Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board awarded NCHRP Project 22-10 to Momentum Engineering, Inc. of Franklin, Tennessee. The purpose of this project was to up-date the 1979 AASHTO-ARTBA-AGC Document, "A Guide to Standardized Highway Barrier Rail Hardware." The draft document was extensively reviewed by AASHTO-ARTBA-AGC Task Force 13, industry representatives, personnel at many DOT's in April of 1994. The document was approved by AASHTO-ARTBA-AGC Task Force 13 at thier Fall 1994 meeting. AASHTO approved publication of the document in the spring of 1995 as the result of a member ballot. Dr. Malcolm Ray put the draft materials on the web in 1995 as a service to the roadside safety community and to provide a means of exchanging up-to-date roadside hardware information. Since the completion of the NCHRP Project with Momentum Engineering, the document has been maintained by AASHTO-ARTBA-AGC Joint Committee on New Materials Task Force 13.The same project team also produced the AASHTO-ARTBA-AGC Task Force 13 A Guide to Standardized Sign Support Hardware". The sign guide was approved by Task Force 13 in 1995 but has never been formally adopted by AASHTO, ARTBA or AGC. For that reason it has not been published by those organizations. Since the completion of the NCHRP Project with Momentum Engineering, the document has been maintained by AASHTO-ARTBA-AGC Joint Committee on New Materials Task Force 13.
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