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1 IRC:79-2019. RECOMMENDED PRACTICE. FOR ROAD DELINEATORS. (First Revision). Published by: INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS. Kama Koti Marg, Sector-6, Puram, New Delhi-110 022. August, 2019. Price : ` 300/- (Plus Packing & Postage). IRC:79-2019 . First Published : May, 1981. Reprinted : April, 2002. Reprinted : April, 2006. Reprinted : June, 2009. Reprinted : March, 2016. First Revision : August, 2019. (All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication shall be reproduced, translated or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the Secretary General, Indian Roads Congress).

2 Printed by India Offset Press, Delhi - 110 064. 1100 Copies IRC:79-2019. Contents S. No. Description Page No. Personnel of the Highways Specifications and Standards Committee i-ii 1. Introduction 1. 2. Scope 2. 3. Roadway Indicators 2. 4. Median marker 8. 5. Hazard Markers 9. 6. object Markers 11. 7. Installation 13. 8. Maintenance 13. IRC:79-2019. PERSONNEL OF THE HIGHWAYS SPECIFICATIONS. AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE (HSS). (As on ). 1 Singh, Director General (Road Development) & Special Secretary to Govt. of (Convenor) India, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi 2 Balakrishna, Y.

3 Additional Director General, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, (Co-Convenor) New Delhi 3 Kumar, Sanjeev Chief Engineer (R) S, R & T, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, (Member-Secretary) New Delhi Members 4 Behera, Bijan Kumar Engineer-in-Chief (Civil), Odisha 5 Bose, Dr. Sunil Head (Retd.), FPC Division, Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi 6 Chandra, Dr. Satish Director, Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi 7 Gupta, DG(RD) & AS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi 8 Jain, Chief Engineer (Retd.)

4 , PWD Haryana 9 Kapila, Chairman & Managing Director, ICT Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 10 Kukrety, Associate Director, CEG Ltd., New Delhi 11 Kumar, Dr. Mahesh Engineer-in-Chief (Retd.), PWD (B&R) Haryana 12 Lal, Chaman Engineer-in-Chief (Retd.), PWD Haryana 13 Meena, Secretary (Retd.), PWD Rajasthan 14 Nashikkar, Secretary (Retd.), PWD Maharashtra 15 Nirmal, Secretary General, Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi 16 Pandey, Additional Director General, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi 17 Parida, Prof. (Dr.) M. Dean, SRIC, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 18 Patel, Secretary (Retd.)

5 , PWD (Roads and Buildings) Gujarat 19 Prasad, R. Jai Engineer-in-Chief (Retd.), PWD & Bangalore Mahanagar Palike, Karnataka 20 Rawat, Executive Director, AECOM India Pvt. Ltd. 21 Reddy, Dr. Krishna Secretary, Public Works, Ports & Inland Water Transport Department, Karnataka 22 Reddy, Engineer-in-Chief (NH, CRF & Buildings), PWD Hyderabad 23 Reddy, Prof. (Dr.) Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 24 Sharma, DG(RD) & SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi 25 Shrivastava, Additional Director General (Retd.)

6 , Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi 26 Singh, Nirmaljit DG(RD) & SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi i IRC:79-2019 . 27 Sinha, DG(RD) & SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi 28 The Chief Engineer PWD Arunachal Pradesh (Basar, Toli). 29 The Chief Engineer Border Roads Organisation, New Delhi (Kumar, Anil). 30 The Director (Tech.) National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, New Delhi (Pradhan, ). 31 The General Manager National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation, (Projects) Retd.

7 New Delhi (Kaul, Satish). 32 The JICA Expert Japan International Cooperation Agency, New Delhi (Kitayama, Michiya). 33 The Member (Projects) National Highways Authority of India, New Delhi (Pandey, ). 34 The Professor Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (Chakroborty, Dr. Partha). 35 The Secretary Roads and Buildings Department, Gujarat (Vasava, ). 36 The Secretary (Roads) PWD Maharashtra (Joshi, ). 37 The Secretary (Tech.) Roads and Buildings Department, Jammu & Kashmir (Tickoo, Bimal) (Retd.). 38 The Special Director CPWD, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi General (Retd.)

8 (Bansal, ). 39 Venkatesha, Consultant 40 Wasson, Ashok Member (Tech.) (Retd.), National Highways Authority of India, New Delhi Corresponding Members 1 Jaigopal, MD, Struct Geotech Research Laboratories (P) Ltd., Bengaluru 2 Justo, Prof. (Dr.) Professor (Retd.), Emeritus 3 Veeraragavan, Prof. Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Dr.) A. Ex-Officio Members 1 President, (Reddy, Dr. Krishna), Secretary, Public Works, Ports & Inland Indian Roads Congress Water Transport Department, Karnataka 2 Director General (Road (Singh, ), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi Development) & Special Secretary to Govt.

9 Of India 3 Secretary General, Nirmal, Sanjay Kumar Indian Roads Congress ii IRC:79-2019. RECOMMENDED PRACTICE FOR ROAD DELINEATORS. 1. INTRODUCTION. The role of delineators is to provide visual assistance to drivers about alignment of the road ahead, especially at night. Delineators are particularly effective in the case of complex locations involving changes in horizontal/vertical geometry, and during severe weather conditions such as heavy rain, fog or snow. Normally, reflectors are used on the delineators for better night time visibility.

10 In a broad sense, delineation stands for any device or treatment whose aim is to outline the roadway or a portion thereof. This could include painted lines, raised pavement markers, posts, post-mounted reflectors or contrast treatments of the pavement. Delineation by pavement markings is covered by IRC:35, Code of Practice for Road Markings . This code deals only with post type retro reflective delineators or embedded on any concrete structures/trees. The code was first published by IRC in 1981. A need was felt to update the document keeping in view of the new and improved materials which are now available.