PIARC XVII WORLD ROAD CONGRESS, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 8-15 1983. QUESTION V: ROADS IN DEVELOPING AREAS

Contributions by Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, Frace, Great Britain, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and the USSR were presented on: planning and administration, evaluation of social and economic aspects, cost benefit analyses, characterisation and optimisation of the vehicle fleet, vehicle operating costs and effects of road standards, progressive construction policy; soils and materials, post-construction performance, use of chemically stabilised materials in rural roads, use of non-traditional local materials; road and pavement design, pavement design for earth and gravel roads, pavement design for rapidly increasing traffic loads both in volume and axle mass, design methods; optimum combination of labour and equipment; maintenance, characterisation of defects and appropriate remedies, maintenance costs related to construction standards; cooperation in information, training and standardisation of practices. (TRRL)

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• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 396 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Axle load force; Benefit cost analysis; Building materials; Chemicals; Chemistry; Conferences; Construction management; Costs; Design standards; Developing countries; Economics; Education; Equipment; Gravel roads; Highways; Level of service; Local government agencies; Maintenance; Motor vehicles; Operating costs; Ownership; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Personnel; Planning; Road construction; Rural areas; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; Soil stabilization; Soils; Traffic flow; Transportation operations; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Low cost roads; Stage construction
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation administration
• ITRD Terms: 3067: Axle load; 7165: Chemistry; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 150: Developing countries; 255: Economics; 2284: Education; 3674: Equipment; 2755: Highway; 653: Level of service; 192: Local authority; 2986: Low cost road; 3847: Maintenance; 4555: Material (constr); 221: Operating costs; 3055: Pavement design; 102: Personnel; 143: Planning; 3665: Road construction; 328: Rural area; 2253: Sociology; 3689: Soil stabilization; 3657: Stage construction; 671: Traffic flow; 315: Vehicle ownership
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Economics; Finance; Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Materials; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I33: Other Materials used in Pavement Layers; I36: Aggregates; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction; I60: Maintenance; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390240
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0 949432 08 3
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM