Risk Based Management of Guardrails: Site Selection and Upgrading

Purpose and Scope

The effort will adapt quantitative and qualitative factors/endpoints and develop associated cost benefit-risk tradeoff methodology to support the preliminary screening and subsequent evaluation of guardrail site selection and upgrading with limited available funding.

Objectives

  • Review and Evaluation of what others have done
  • Adoption of assessment methods
  • Development of a tradeoff methodology
  • Specification and prototype of database