OVERHEAD SIGN STRUCTURES - SPAN SIGN STRUCTURES

AASHTO - Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume I)

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume II)

FDOT Structures Design Office – Engineering Programs

FDOT Structures Standard Drawings

FDOT Design Standards

Soils and Foundation Handbook

Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction

AASHTO - Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals (1994 Edition with Interim Specifications)
Section 1 | General Features of Design
Section 2 | Loads
Section 3 | Methods of Analysis
Section 4 | Steel Design
Section 8 | Foundations
Section 9 | Details of Design

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume I)
7.2.1 | Signing and/or Pavement Marking - Design Criteria
7.2.2 | Wind Loading Criteria - Signs
7.5 | Foundation Design
29.1 | Design of Overhead Sign Structures and Foundations
For current Plans Preparation Manual: http://www.fdot.gov/roadway/PPMManual/PPM.htm

Plans Preparation Manual – English (Volume II)
17.3 | Other Soil Surveys
23.7 | Sign Supports
For current Plans Preparation Manual: http://www.fdot.gov/roadway/PPMManual/PPM.htm

FDOT Structures Design Office – Engineering Programs
| Span Overhead Sign Program
| Flange Plate (Custom chords) (Mathcad)
| Drilled Shaft Design for Sign and Signal Structures (Mathcad)
| FB-Pier (UF Bridge Software Institute)

FDOT Design Standards
11300 | Aluminum & Steel Overhead Sign Structures
11320 | Span Sign Structure
13417 | Mounting Exit Numbering Panels to Highway Signs
17505 | External Lighting for Signs (Mercury Vapor)
For current Design Standards: http://www.fdot.gov/roadway/Design%20Standards/Standards.htm

FDOT Structures Drawings
Structures Sitemenu Cell - Span Sign Structure Data Table 11320 |  |  |  |

Soils and Foundation Handbook
3.2.2.7 | High Mast Lighting, Strain Poles and Sign Structures

Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction
Section 700 | Highway Signing
Section 962-9.3 | Steel Sign Supports and Accessories
For current specifications: http://www.dot.state.fl.us/specificationsoffice/