The mission of the Subcommittee #5 - Sign, Luminaire & Traffic Support
Hardware is to develop, disseminate, and maintain user friendly documents
to provide users (researchers, designers, manufacturers, and contractors)
with information on standardized hardware components for sign, luminaire and
traffic signal supports. The Task Force 13 publications under the purview
of the Subcommittee are "A Guide to Small Sign Support Hardware," 1998, and
"A Guide to Standardized Highway Lighting Pole Hardware," 1980.
Subcommittee #5 Chairs:
Mr. Michael S. Stenko
Transpo Industries, Inc.
mstenko@transpo.com
Mr. Gregg Fredrick
Wyoming D.O.T.
Gregg.Fredrick@dot.state.wy.us
A Letter From The Co-Chairs:
In cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration Office of safety, the AASHTO / AGC / ARTBA Joint Committee Task Force 13 - Standardization of Highway and Bridge Hardware, is revising its publication "A Guide to Small Sign Support Hardware" The current 1998 publication illustrates numerous breakaway sign support systems and components, and it needs to be updated to include new hardware as well as to make needed revisions to the existing systems.
If your company produces breakaway sign supports or components that you wish to have included in the update to this guide, which will be titled "A Guide to Ground Mounted Small Sign Supports", you must provide the Task Force with drawings, specifications, intended use and contact information for your device (s). This information must in the format approved by the Task Force, the AASHTO Technical Committee on Roadside Safety and the FHWA.
A description of the page format, as well as a downloadable template, may
be found at
http://aashtotf13.tamu.edu/Guide/standards.html.
In addition to this information we are encouraging manufacturers to include
photos of their products. The photos should focus on the system and not the
entire sign installation.
All drawings and specification pages should be sent to mhray@wpi.edu or if you have the info on CD or DVD they can be sent to;
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, Ma. 01609
Attn. Malcolm H. Ray, P.E., Ph.D
All information must be received before 4/30/07 to make sure that it is included in the update.