Low-Volume Road Engineering
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Low-Volume Road Engineering

Design, Construction, and Maintenance

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Low-Volume Road Engineering

Design, Construction, and Maintenance

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About This Book

"Everything that sustains us – grown, mined, or drilled – begins its journey to us on a low-volume road (Long)." Defined as roads with traffic volumes of no more than 400 vehicles per day, they have enormous impacts on economies, communication, and social interaction. Low-volume roads comprise, at one end of the spectrum, farm-to-market roads, roads in developing countries, northern roads, roads on aboriginal lands and parklands; and at the other end of the spectrum, heavy haul roads for mining, oil and gas, oil sands extraction, and forestry.

Low-Volume Road Engineering: Design, Construction, and Maintenance

gives an international perspective to the engineering design of low-volume roads and their construction and maintenance. It is a single reference drawing from the dispersed literature. It lays out the basic principles of each topic, from road location and geometric design, pavement design, slope stability and erosion control, through construction to maintenance, then refers the reader to more comprehensive treatment elsewhere. Wherever possible, comparisons are made between the standard specifications and practices existing in the US, Canada, the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Topics covered include the following:

  • Road classification, location, and geometric design
  • Pavement concepts, materials, and thickness design
  • Drainage, erosion and sediment control, and watercrossings
  • Slope stability
  • Geosynthetics
  • Road construction, maintenance, and maintenance management

Low-Volume Road Engineering: Design, Construction, and Maintenance i

s a valuable reference for engineers, planners, designers and project managers in consulting firms, contracting firms and NGOs. It also is an essential reference in support of university courses on transportation engineering and planning, and on mining, oil and gas, and forestry infrastructure.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781482212655
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
City Planning & Urban Development
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Author
  6. About the book
  7. Part I: Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction to low-volume roads
  9. Part II: Road design
  10. Chapter 2: Road location
  11. Chapter 3: Road classification
  12. Chapter 4: Geometric design
  13. Chapter 5: Pavement concepts
  14. Chapter 6: Pavement materials
  15. Chapter 7: Pavement design
  16. Chapter 8: Drainage
  17. Chapter 9: Soil erosion and sedimentation control
  18. Chapter 10: Watercourse crossings
  19. Chapter 11: Slope stability
  20. Chapter 12: Geosynthetics
  21. Part III: Road construction and maintenance
  22. Chapter 13: Road construction
  23. Chapter 14: Road maintenance
  24. Chapter 15: Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation management
  25. Index
  26. Back Cover