Highway Engineering Unit 1
Highway Engineering Unit 1
Highway Engineering Unit 1
UNIT-1
INTRODUCTION
Darshan D. Dave
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darshan.dave@darshan.ac.in
HIGHWAY
• What is Highway?
• Roads and highways, traveled way on which people, animals, or
wheeled vehicles move.
• In modern usage the term road describes a rural, lesser traveled
way, while the word street denotes an urban roadway.
• Highway refers to a major rural traveled way; more recently it has
been used for a road, in either a rural or urban area, where points of
entrance and exit for traffic are limited and controlled.
PATHWAY
TRACKWAY
Cross Section of
Roman Road
Cross Section of
British Road
designed by John
Macadam
Heavy
Surfaced roads
Medium TRAFFIC VOLUME
PAVEMENT SURFACE
Low
Unsurfaced roads
National Highway
State Highway
Class I or A 1st 20 Year
Major District Road
LOAD Class II or B Plan
Class III or C Other District Road
Village Road
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ROAD CLASSIFICATION
Primary System • Expressways
• National Highways
3rd 20 year • State Highways
Secondary System
Road Plan • Major District Roads
Tertiary System or rural • Other District Roads
roads • Village Roads
NE NH SH MDR ODR VR
MOBILITY
ACCESSIBILITY
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HIGHWAY PLANNING IN INDIA
Plan overall
road network
Arrive at a
Work out road system
financial and lengths
system of different
types of roads
HIGHWAY
PLANNING
Fix up date
wise priorities
ECONOMIC
• Topography survey STUDIES • Source of income & estimated
• Soil survey ENGINEERING
revenue
•
FINANCIAL
Location & Classification of
STUDIES
STUDIES
PLANNING Standard of living
existing road
• Resources at local level
• Assessment of development SURVEYS
• Anticipated development
• Road life studies
• Future trends in financial
• Problems in drainage, cons., TRAFFIC aspects
& maintenance of road STUDIES
• CVC (vehicles/day)
• O/D study
• Traffic flow pattern
• Mass transportation facility
• Accidents study
• Future growth and trend in traffic volume
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• Length of National Highways + State Highways, km
• The following data were collected for planning the road development programme
of a backward district.
• Total Area = 9600 km2
• Agricultural and Developed area = 3200 km2
• Existing railway track length = 105 km
• Existing length of surfaced road = 322 km
• Existing length of un-surfaced road = 450 km
• Number of towns or villages in different population ranges are as below:
Population > 5000 2001-5000 1001 – 2000 501 – 1000 < 500
No. of Villages & Towns 8 40 130 280 590
• Calculate the additional lengths of surfaced and un-surfaced roads for the
road system based on Nagpur Road Plan formulae for this district.
• Calculate the total lengths of NH, SH, MDR, ODR and VR needed in a district as
per Bombay Road Plan. The data collected form district are given below:
• Total Area = 18400 km2
• Agricultural and Developed area = 8000 km2
• Undeveloped area = 4800 km2 Population range Number of Towns
• Population centres are as given in table: < 500 200
500 – 1000 350
1000 – 2000 750
2000 – 5000 360
5000 – 10000 150
10000 – 20000 80
20000 – 50000 25
50000 – 100000 10
> 100000 5
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CALCULATION OF ROAD LENGTHS (EXERCISE)
• The area of a certain district in India is 13400 km2 and there are 12 towns per
1981 census. Determine the lengths of different categories of roads to be
provided in this district by the year 2001.
• Maintenance cost
• Accident rate
• Once the road is aligned and constructed, it is not easy to change the
alignment due to increase in cost of adjoining land and construction of
costly structures by the road side.
• Easy: The alignment must facilitate easy construction & maintenance of road with
minimum problems.
• Safe: The alignment must safe enough from the view point of stability of hill slopes,
embankment and cut slopes and foundation, traffic operation with safe geometric
features.
• Economical: The alignment is considered economical only if the total life-cycle cost
considering initial, maintenance & vehicle operation cost is lowest.
• A shortest route may have very steep gradients and hence not easy for vehicle
operation.
• There may be construction and maintenance problems along the route which
otherwise be short and easy.
• Obligatory points through which the road alignment has to pass are due to
topographic and other site conditions including natural obstructions. Some of
the examples are mountain pass, suitable location of bridge to cross a river,
presence of intermediate town to be connected.
• These obligatory points necessitate deviation of the road alignment from the
straight alignment with shortest or easiest path.
The road bridge across a river can be located only at a place where the river has straight and
permanent path and not where there is a bend in the river also the selected location of the
bridge should be such that the abutment and pier can be properly constructed.
• These points which should be avoided while aligning a road includes religious
places, very costly structures, unsuitable land, grave or tomb, marshy, peaty
and water logged area.
• The road alignment should be decided based in the requirements of road traffic.
• Origin and destination study should be carried out in the area and the desire lines be drawn showing the
trend of traffic flow.
• The new road to be aligned should keep in view the desire lines, anticipated traffic flow, classified traffic
volume their growth and future trends.
• Geometric design factors such as gradient, radius of curve and sight distance would govern
the final alignment of highway.
• If straight alignment is aimed at, often it may be necessary to provide very steep gradient.
• As far as possible while aligning a new road, the gradient should be flat and less than ruling
gradient.
• It may be necessary to change the alignment considering the design speed, maximum
allowable superelevation and coefficient of lateral friction.
• Also adjustment in the horizontal alignment of roads is made keeping in view the minimum
radius of curve and the transition curves.
• The sight distance must be made available in every section of the road.
• It is essential to work out overall economics based on life cycle cost of the road
project and not consider the initial cost of the road project only.
• Reconnaissance study
• Preliminary surveys
• In India topographic maps are available from the SURVEY OF INDIA with 15 or 30
metre contour intervals.
• The main features like rivers, hills, valleys etc. are also shown in this maps.
TOPOGRAPHIC MAP
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ENGINEERING SURVEYS FOR HIGHWAY ALIGNMENT
• All relevant data which are not available on the map are collected and noted down.
• Number and type of cross drainage structures, max. flood level, ground water level etc.
• As a result of this survey a few alternate alignments may be chosen for further studies.
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ENGINEERING SURVEYS FOR HIGHWAY ALIGNMENT
PRELIMINARY SURVEY
• Survey of various alternate alignments proposed after reconnaissance is done and all
necessary physical information, topography details and drainage of soil is collected
• The alignment finalised at the design office after the preliminary survey is to be first located
on the filed by establishing the centre line.
• Next detailed survey should be carried out for collecting the information necessary for the
preparation of plans and construction details for the highway project.
• Collection of materials and testing of subgrade soil and other construction materials, mix
design of pavement materials and design details of pavement layers.