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TMA

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-006046

A crash cushion mounted on the rear of a work-zone truck to shield highway workers by absorbing the energy of a vehicle that strikes the truck from behind. Truck-mounted attenuators are crash tested under the AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, which replaced NCHRP Report 350, and not under the MUTCD, which governs signs and markings.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-006046
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectTransport and logistics
TranslationsGerman: TMA; Spanish: TMA; French: TMA
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006046",
  "term": "TMA",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A crash cushion mounted on the rear of a work-zone truck to shield highway workers by absorbing the energy of a vehicle that strikes the truck from behind. Truck-mounted attenuators are crash tested under the AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, which replaced NCHRP Report 350, and not under the MUTCD, which governs signs and markings.",
  "subject": "Transport and logistics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "TMA",
    "es": "TMA",
    "fr": "TMA"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/tma/"
}

Record 6,558 of 7,311 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.