Portal and cantilever signs/signals gantries (formerly BD 51/14, IAN 193/16, BE 7/04). Revision 1
DMRB: Highway Structures and Bridges CD 365 Revision 1
Document Status
Current
Supplement
Civil & Structural Supplement
Series
DMRB: Highway Structures and Bridges
Abstract
Presents the design criteria and considerations for portal and cantilever sign and/or signal gantries for use over highways. Covers gantry type selection, risk assessment, design principles, appearance, limit state design, actions, performance for passively safe gantries, gantries with permanent maintenance access, dynamically sensitive gantry, equipment and cabling.
History
Supersedes CD 365 Highway structures and bridges. Design. Portal and cantilever signs/signals gantries (formerly BD 51/14, IAN 193/16, BE 7/04) (HE, 2019) and BD 51/14 Highway structures: Design (substructures and special structures) materials. Special structures. Portal and cantilever sign/signal gantries (HA, 2014), IAN 193/16 Requirements for the provision of access arrangements on gantries (HE, 2016), and BE 7/04 Highway structures: Design (substructures and special structures) material. Special structures. Departmental standard (interim) motorway sign/signal gantries (HA, 2004). Design manual for roads and bridges (DMRB). Revision 0 - dated March 2019 - replaces BD 51/14, IAN 196/16 and BE 7/04. Revision 1 - dated March 2020 - updates references.
Subjects
- Roads
- Civil engineering, infrastructure and public utilities
- Transport facilities
- Traffic signals
Publisher History
Highways England is now known as National Highways and was responsible for the operation, maintenance and improvement of England's motorways and major A roads. It was an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Transport and was formerly known as Highways Agency.
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