A STUDY OF EFFECT OF WIDTH OF ROAD CARRIAGEWAY ON FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN

A study of transverse distribution of heavy-duty traffic on multi-lane carriageways in India discusses the effect of carriageway width on flexible pavement thickness. Unlike multi-lane highways in western countries, fast-moving, heavy traffic is said to dominate the inner lanes leaving the outer lanes for slow-moving bicycles, animal-drawn traffic and pedestrians. The study considers appropriate values of traffic intensity for flexible pavement design purposes and indicates possible savings in construction costs. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Indian Roads Congress

  Jamnagar House, Shahjahan Road
  New Delhi,   India  110 011
• Authors:
  • Gorkhale, Y C
  • SWAMINATHAN, C G
• Publication Date: 1975-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 391-406
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Indian Roads Congress
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Indian Roads Congress
  • ISSN: 0258-0500

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Construction; Construction management; Costs; Developing countries; Flexible pavements; Highways; Layout; Multilane highways; Passing lanes; Pavement design; Pavements; Pedestrians; Slow moving vehicles; Statistical distributions; Thickness; Traffic density; Traffic flow; Traffic lanes; Width
• Uncontrolled Terms: Construction costs; Pavement thickness; Transverse distribution
• Geographic Terms: Asia; India
• Old TRIS Terms: Inner lane; Outer lane
• ITRD Terms: 8005: Asia; 3666: Construction method; 224: Cost; 150: Developing countries; 2944: Flexible pavement; 2755: Highway; 8045: India; 2885: Layout; 2838: Multilane; 3055: Pavement design; 5933: Thickness; 673: Traffic concentration; 671: Traffic flow; 2827: Traffic lane
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Finance; Highways; Pavements; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138873
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM