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... 1   1.1 Purpose The purpose of NCHRP Research Report 1010: In-Service Performance Evaluation: Guidelines for the Assembly and Analysis of Data is to present uniform criteria for conducting in-service performance evaluations (ISPEs) of both permanent and temporary safety features.
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... 2 In-Service Performance Evaluation: Guidelines for the Assembly and Analysis of Data The current crash-testing specification, the Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, 2nd edition (MASH) , was published by AASHTO in 2016.
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... Introduction 3   feature. It has long been recognized that the most carefully researched safety feature will have performance limits dictated by physical laws and the crashworthiness of vehicles (Ross et al.
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... 4 In-Service Performance Evaluation: Guidelines for the Assembly and Analysis of Data • Is traversable, such that an errant vehicle can recover or come to a stop, thereby reducing the likelihood of rollover. An ISPE can be used to answer a number of possible safety feature performance questions.
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... Introduction 5   Chapter 4. Each evaluation measure need not be assessed for every ISPE.

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