Development of Functional Requirements for a Highly-Mobile Barrier System to Protect Highway Workers: Final Report

This report describes a recommended set of functional requirements, performance specifications, analysis approaches, and testing procedures needed for the development of a highly-mobile barrier system to protect highway workers. These requirements were developed based on an assessment of the various types of construction and maintenance work activities that are highly mobile and which would potentially benefit from such a system. As defined, a system meeting the stated requirements could accommodate about two-thirds of the types of activities considered (perhaps even more if work crews were to adopt slightly different procedures to accommodate a mobile barrier system into some of the remaining activities).