Utility Poles - Acknowledgments

This volume of NCHRP Report 500 was developed under NCHRP Project 17-18(3), the product of which is a series of implementation guides addressing the emphasis areas of AASHTO’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan. The project was managed by CH2M Hill, and the co-principal investigators were Ron Pfefer of Maron Engineering and Kevin Slack of CH2M Hill. Timothy Neuman of CH2M Hill served as the overall project director for the team. Kelly Hardy, also of CH2M Hill, served as a technical specialist on the development of the guides.

The project team was organized around the specialized technical content contained in each guide, and the team included nationally recognized experts from many organizations. The following team of experts, selected based on their knowledge and expertise in this particular emphasis area, served as lead authors for the utility pole guide:

• Kevin Lacy
  North Carolina Department of Transportation

• Raghavan Srinivasan
  University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center

• Charles V. Zegeer
  University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center

Developing the volumes of NCHRP Report 500 required the resources and expertise of many professionals from around the country and overseas. Through research, workshops, and actual demonstration of the guides by agencies, the resulting documents represent best practices in each emphasis area. The project team is grateful to the following list of people and their agencies for supporting the project through their participation in workshops and meetings and additional reviews of the utility pole guide:

The authors also wish to express their thanks to the following individuals for their input to the utility pole guide:

• Don Ivey, Texas Transportation Institute; Charles McDevitt, Federal Highway Administration; Paul Scott, TBE Group; Gordon Wheeler, Florida Department of Transportation; Kenneth Weldon, Florida Department of Transportation; and Richard Anderson, Washington State Department of Transportation, for their detailed review of the guide.

• Charles McDevitt, Federal Highway Administration, for providing information about breakaway guy wires.

• Jay Lindly, University of Alabama; Kenneth Weldon, Florida Department of Transportation; Girish Modi, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; John Schaefer, Missouri Department of Transportation; Bruno Stopka, Ameren Corporation; A. C. Cliff Braam, North Carolina Department of Transportation; and Conrad Kattner, Peco Energy, for their contribution to the various appendixes to the guide.