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Design Guidelines & Liability

Applying appropriate design criteria, policies, and procedures for design decision-making for a project is applied on a project specific basis. Best practices for risk management are employed to minimize chances of a tort lawsuit being successful. Minimizing tort claims and support good decisions should be a concern of all stakeholders.

IDOT Design and Environment Manual
http://www.dot.il.gov/desenv/bdemanual.html
FHWA Context Sensitive Solutions/Context Sensitive Design 
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/teams/safety/saf_1CSD.pdf
Kentucky CSS Documentation
http://www.ktc.uky.edu/Reports/KTC_04_11_SPR_204_99_1F.pdf
Context Sensitive Solutions Tort Liability
http://www.contextsensitivesolutions.org/content/reading/tort-liabili/
Transportation Research Board
http://trb.org/news/blurb_browse.asp?id=4

 

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