STANDARDS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

The standards we have recommended provide for the construction and maintenance standards which should ensure that national highways will be adequate - but will not be over-designed. In this regard national highways should not differ from state highways or other roads. We agree that many state highways carry high traffic loads and are of considerable economic significance. In fact we would expect these highways to have performance standards similar to equivalent parts of the national highways system. The recommended standards draw attention to the environment, as existing environmental legislation (Australian and state) is concerned mainly with planning and cannot cover the day to day environmental considerations which arise during engineering design, construction and maintenance. (A) /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Commonwealth Bureau of Roads, Australia

  60 Collins Street
  Melbourne, Victoria 3000,   Australia 
• Publication Date: 1975-10

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 81 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Design; Environment; Environmental impacts; Federal government; Highway design; Highway maintenance; Highways; Maintenance; Planning; Road construction; Standards
• Identifier Terms: Interstate Highway System
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 8006: Australia; 9011: Design (overall design); 2455: Environment; 183: Government (national); 2755: Highway; 3847: Maintenance; 143: Planning; 3665: Road construction; 187: Specification (standard)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Design; Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00164208
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 18 1978 12:00AM