Typical Application for TMA Truck Portable Positive Protection
It is important to have advance warning of the mobile lane closure using TMA trucks for advance warnings with appropriate signing to warn drivers of the lane closure. The typical application diagram below includes a potential approach to executing this mobile lane closure when using portable positive protection. While this approach reflects the MUTCD typical application for mobile operations, other deployments may or may not include the shadow vehicles. In either case, advance warning for drivers is of utmost importance to the safety of the operation.A typical application drawing to relay main points about how to use portable positive protection.
An example of a traffic control configuration for a mobile lane closure:
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Citation and credits:
Mobile Barriers LLC.. (2016). Portable Positive Protection: A Guide for Short Duration and Short-Term Work Zones. (Based on Material Developed by ATSSA for the FHWA Work Zone Safety Grant Program ed.). USA: Retrieved from https://www.mobilebarriers.com/
Information Sources
Federal Highway Administration Resource Charts
TX Deployment—“Texas Department of Transportation Rolls out Mobile Barriers MBT-1”
Mobile Barriers MBT-1 Cost benefit Analysis—with Analysis from CO, CA and Others
Field Guide for the Placement of Shadow Vehicles in Work Zones
Guidelines on the Use of Positive Protection in Temporary Traffic Control Zones
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices – Part 6 sections 6F and 6G
North Texas Tollway—“Mobile Barriers Protect Workers”
Washington State Department of Transportation Work Zone Traffic Control Guidelines Book M54-44
National Work Zone Safety Clearinghouse
Developmental History of Highly Mobile Barriers
