Rural and Green Road
Rural and Green Road
Rural and Green Road
Pokhara University
School of Engineering
Bachelor of Civil & Rural Engineering
Rural Infrastructure –I
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General Approach
Planning or rural roads is part of rural transport planning, which, in turn, has its own
characteristics. Objective of rural transport planning is to identify and prioritize
infrastructure and service interventions that help improve physical accessibility of
the rural settlements. Therefore, it is focused around providing improved transport
at the household level. For this, first of all, it is necessary to know that travel and
transport needs of the people. Then developing infrastructure and services to meet
this need becomes the objectives of the rural transport project to be evolved.
Identification of rural transport needs is done in different ways such as collecting
the demand from the local communities, officials of higher authorities determining
the needs and through an objective and participatory assessment at the community
level.
Rural Road planning is a participatory approach that follows certain basic planning principles:-
A) Sustainable approach:
The conventional approach of developing transport infrastructure least considered the environment, Excessive use of
blasting results the wider mass movement and slope instability. Construction methodology is costly and the works are
carried through the contractors in the conventional approach and thus least considered the social aspects like poverty
alleviation. So, with due consideration to difficult topography and wide pervasive poverty, it is very much essential to
adopt a sustainable approach in developing transport infrastructure in rural areas. So, the sustainability of
infrastructure development is an issue of growing concern and calls for close examination of the design, construction
and maintenance of road infrastructure. In developing countries, particularly in least developed countries (LDCs) like
Nepal, the technical knowledge for infrastructure development in rural mountainous regions is still limited, which
results in technical shortcomings and significant environment impact. In the context of Nepal, the development of
infrastructure is characterized by high initial costs, frequent damages due to harsh terrain and/ or heavy monsoon rain,
long construction time and low economic returns. Therefore, there is an urgent need for serious rethinking about
infrastructure development strategies and practices. Decades of experiences of infrastructure development of
infrastructure in mountainous regions requires a multidisciplinary approach which considered social, gender equity
issues, economic, engineering, environmental and bio-technical factors for the sustainable economic development.
B) Bottom-up approach
Rural road planning approach should be well understood and acceptable at grass-root level.
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