# Highway Safety: Clear Zone Concept

Federal Highway Administration Video VH-48B Highway Safety: Clear Zone Concept This tape introduces the Functional Requirements series and the clear zone concept, stressing removal, relocation, retrofitting and shielding. The desired clear zone width is explained and reviewed. Removal of trees and other roadside hazards, treatment of culvert ends and other objects within the clear zone, and maintenance of embankment slopes are covered. Proper maintenance of breakaway signs and crash cushions are also shown. Slope test footage shows the functional reasons for clear zone widths, and continual routine maintenance of the clear zone is emphasized.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1989
- By: Federal Highway Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dot.fhwa.ttp.vh-48b)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.