THE LONG TERM PERFORMANCE OF ZIMBABWE'S MAIN ROAD NETWORK

Zimbabwe's main roads have mostly exceeded their pavement design life. This paper reviews the country's main road practice, its development, and performance. From these it identifies probable causes, and suggests research areas which should lead to more rational and economic design practice.

• Corporate Authors:

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155
• Authors:
  • Grant, M P
  • Lal, N B
• Conference:
  • 4th International Conference, Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields
  • Location: Minneapolis, MN
  • Date: 1994-8-17 to 1994-8-21
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1221-1234
• Serial:
  • Volume: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Development; Networks; Pavement design; Performance; Roads; Time duration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Long term; Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Zimbabwe
• Old TRIS Terms: Practices
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00730562
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 3 1997 12:00AM