The Promise of Rural Roads: Review of the Role of Low-Volume Roads in Rural Connectivity, Poverty Reduction, Crisis Management, and Livability

This Circular reviews the role of rural roads in improving rural connectivity, catalyzing economic growth and reducing poverty, managing natural disasters and manmade crises, sustaining rural livelihoods, and enhancing livability. In short, this Circular highlights the promise of rural roads as a harbinger of opportunity, progress, and prosperity and discusses what sustainability and its more practical subset, livability, mean in relation to rural roads and how the application of context-sensitive solutions (CSS) to rural roads could help achieve a better balance among the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/167787.aspx
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00978515
• Authors:
  • Faiz, Asif
• Publication Date: 2012-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 52p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: E-C167
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crisis management; Economic development; Economic growth; Environmental impacts; Highway design; Low volume roads; Quality of life; Rural highways; Social impacts; Sustainable development
• Identifier Terms: Context Sensitive Solutions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01448525
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 2 2012 4:14PM