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Safety
ARA performs a wide variety of safety-related testing and research in the transportation arena. Specific safety-related capabilities include:
- Safety management systems
- Runway safety analysis
- Work zone safety analysis, including moving and intermittent lane closures
- Crashworthiness analysis
- Evaluation of roadside safety appurtenances
- Institutional issues and business models for accident reduction
- Quality control and quality assurance for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and other safety data
- Economic analysis
ARA offers a broad range of safety-related services
for pavements. Our pavement safety expertise includes:
- Pavement surface characteristics (friction, rideability, noise, etc.)
- Pavement friction considerations in design and rehabilitation
- Best practices in texturing of concrete pavements
- Safety ramifications of the design of flexible and rigid highway pavements
- Assessment and evaluation of pavement skid resistance
- Pavement distress evaluation (rutting, potholes, blowups, etc.)
- Long-term pavement performance monitoring and evaluation for safety
- Roadway and airport pavement safety evaluations
- Long-term pavement safety needs assessments and resource allocation using pavement management systems
- Experimental designs for safety-related evaluations
- Training courses, outreach materials, and seminars on designing, building, and maintaining safe pavements
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