The National Cooperative Highway Research Board provided a review and update of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officals' "Roadside Design Guide."

The FHWA is exploring several potential options for reviewing, evaluting, and accepting the results of crash testing of roadside safety hardware that is intended to be used on the National Highway System (NHS). The options are for discussion only.

The FHWA issued a memo in April 2018 to provide guidance to the FHWA Division Offices to assist in their evaluation that a state DOT has an acceptable process for determining the crashworthiness of roadside safety hardwareused on the National Highway System (NHS).

Roadway safety infrastructure can mean the difference between life and death when crashes happen, and guardrail are an important part of that infrastructure.

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