The document provides terms of reference for designing a service area and expressway segment for the Ruwanpura Expressway project in Sri Lanka. The aims are to identify suitable locations for service areas through feasibility studies and environmental assessments, and to design the service area buildings, parking areas, and a highway segment including the structural designs of pavement, girders, piers, and foundations. The scope of work includes estimating traffic demand, conducting location analysis and assessments, preliminary and detailed architectural and structural designs, cost estimation, and preparing drawings, calculations, and reports. Relevant design standards and regulations will be followed.
The document provides terms of reference for designing a service area and expressway segment for the Ruwanpura Expressway project in Sri Lanka. The aims are to identify suitable locations for service areas through feasibility studies and environmental assessments, and to design the service area buildings, parking areas, and a highway segment including the structural designs of pavement, girders, piers, and foundations. The scope of work includes estimating traffic demand, conducting location analysis and assessments, preliminary and detailed architectural and structural designs, cost estimation, and preparing drawings, calculations, and reports. Relevant design standards and regulations will be followed.
The document provides terms of reference for designing a service area and expressway segment for the Ruwanpura Expressway project in Sri Lanka. The aims are to identify suitable locations for service areas through feasibility studies and environmental assessments, and to design the service area buildings, parking areas, and a highway segment including the structural designs of pavement, girders, piers, and foundations. The scope of work includes estimating traffic demand, conducting location analysis and assessments, preliminary and detailed architectural and structural designs, cost estimation, and preparing drawings, calculations, and reports. Relevant design standards and regulations will be followed.
The document provides terms of reference for designing a service area and expressway segment for the Ruwanpura Expressway project in Sri Lanka. The aims are to identify suitable locations for service areas through feasibility studies and environmental assessments, and to design the service area buildings, parking areas, and a highway segment including the structural designs of pavement, girders, piers, and foundations. The scope of work includes estimating traffic demand, conducting location analysis and assessments, preliminary and detailed architectural and structural designs, cost estimation, and preparing drawings, calculations, and reports. Relevant design standards and regulations will be followed.
SERVICE AREA AND GEOMETRIC AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF EXPRESSWAY SEGMENT
GROUP 12 Supervisors: Dr. H.R. Pasindu Dr. P. Weerasinghe
2nd of September 2021
Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA – SRI LANKA 1. Background of the project Ruwanpura Expressway was planned to provide higher mobility and efficient road network system by connecting Western province and Sabaragamuwa province through 10 districtts. In addition to the connectivity, it will significantly reduce the travel hours to Uva and Eastern provinces from Western Province. The project was initially proposed by Manifesto of former president Mahinda Rajapakshe back in 2014. This is a 73.9km long expressway, and the project has been divided into three sections.
An expressway service area is a public area where highway users can fulfil their basic needs such as rest, eat, and sanitary facilities without exiting into secondary roads. Other than that, it also provides refuelling for vehicles, shopping, entertainment, medical treatment, communication, ATMs, and leisure facilities. Selecting the most suitable location for the service area is the most crucial part, by doing the multicriteria assessment for the considered alternatives, the most suitable location has to be selected with adequate parking and other core facilities. Following the selection of the suitable location and facilities to be provided in the service area based on the socioeconomic activities taking place around the selected location, the social, environmental and hydrological analysis should be carried out to ensure the impacts due to the provision are less or suitable precautionary measures would be provided to mitigate the impacts. Design of service area consists of architectural, service and structural designs. The cost estimation of the service area would be carried out at the latter part and the financial analysis.
Access to the service area from the highway would be granted by a ramp connecting a highway segment and the service area. Initially, a traffic forecast would be carried out, following that, the geometric design of the ramp and the highway segment, substructure and superstructure structural modelling, analysis and detailed design.
2. Aims and Objectives
2.1. Aim
The main aim of the project is to design a service area for the Ruwanpura Expressway, and in addition to that, the design of a highway segment and a ramp for the service area.
2.2. Objectives
• Identify suitable location/s for the service areas based on predefined criteria. • Preparing EIA report for the selected service area location including hydrological analysis and land acquisition. • Design structural designs including substructure of a selected expressway segment near the service area including access ramp. • Pavement design of road segments. • Develop an architectural design for the service area building incorporating sustainable concepts. • Prepare the structural design of the service area buildings and design the car park. • Building services design of service area building. • Perform financial analysis for the service area including operations and maintenance cost and revenue. • Prepare BOQ for service area building.
3. Scope of Work, Tasks and Deliverables.
3.1. Estimation of Traffic Demand • Collecting the traffic survey data and estimation of traffic demand. 3.2. Considering location alternatives for the service area • Initial study on contour plots, satellite and drone images of the site. • Initial study on socioeconomic activities, Archaeological and Historically important areas, local businesses related to the surrounding area of the site.
3.3. Conducting Feasibility study
• Selection of most feasible location for the service area based on initial studies and conducting Environmental, Social and hydrological feasibility studies.
3.4. Environmental Impact Assessment
- Study on prevailing environmental conditions. - Evaluation of the land acquisition for the service area. - Identification of the impacts and verify they are of low order or propose mitigating actions during the construction and operational stages.
3.5. Conceptual design stage
• Selection of suitable facilities to be provided in the service area based on the requirements of the road users and economic activities of the location • Collecting geotechnical details required for the substructure design. • Selection of a highway segment to be designed (based on service area location). • Deciding the design parameters required for the pavement design. • The initial selection of girder beam choice (I section/M section/Box girder).
3.6. Preliminary design stage
• Architectural design concepts for the service area based on sustainability concepts. • Geometric design and pavement design of ramp and highway segment. • Initial design parameter for structural detailed design. • Load calculations for structural modelling.
3.7. Detailed design stage
• Finite element modelling of the service area and highway segment area using SAP2000 and CsiBridge, for both substructure and superstructure. • Design of parking area for the service area. • Detailed structural design of elevated highway segment superstructure and substructure elements (pavement, slab, girder, pier and pile foundation and cap design) and of service area.
3.8. Deliverables • Detailed architectural and structural drawings for the service area and geometric and structural drawings for the highway segment and ramp. • Detailed calculation of the service area, highway segment and ramp including superstructure and substructure elements. • 3D architectural model of the service area. • Environmental, Socio-economic and technical feasibility report study for the service area.
3.9. Preparation of cost estimation and financial analysis.
• Preparation of BOQ for the service area. • Preparation of financial analysis for the service area including operational and maintenance cost and the generated revenue.
4. Rules & Regulations
• Design standards from RDA. - Geometric Design Standards of Roads (1998) - Bridge Design Manual (1997) - Standard Specifications for Construction, and maintenance of Roads and Bridges (1989) - Bridge Construction Manual (1997) - A guide to the Structural design of roads under Sri Lankan Conditions (April 1999) - National Thoroughfares Act, No 40 of 2008 • Other standards. - British Standard BS 5400 (1978 – 2000), 8002 (1994), 8004 (1986), 8110 (1985 – 1997) - Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, British Standards Institutions (BSI) - Specification of Highway Bridges (Japan Road Association, 2002) - AASHTO standard - Preliminary Planning Clearance from UDA. - Policies, Acts and other legislative instruments in connection with road construction and implementation. • Noise and Ground vibration. - National Environmental (Noise Control) Regulation 1996 • Environmental guidelines for Road sector projects, RDA 2005. - Guidelines for Implementing EIA process No.1159/22 (November 2000). - Environmental impact assessment/clearance from the CEA. • Ceylon Electricity board for power requirements.
