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NCHRP 20-07/Task 256 [Completed]

Safety Impacts of the Emerging Digital Display Technology for Outdoor Advertising Signs
[ NCHRP 20-07 (Research for AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways) ]

  Project Data
Funds: $50,000
Research Agency: The Veridan Group, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Jerry Wachtel
Effective Date: 1/21/2008
Completion Date: 4/22/2009

This topic will review on-going human factor studies and guidelines with regard to highway agency DMS’s and CMS’s now in use on highways. The panel noted that the panel for this topic should include a representative from the outdoor advertising industry.  The final report has been submitted and copies sent to AASHTO and the Chair of the Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering. A copy of the final report is available at the AASHTO website at https://rightofway.transportation.org/Documents/NCHRP%20Reports/20-7(256)%20digital%20outdoor%20advertising_aashto.pdf

(NCHRP Staff: C. W. Niessner)

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