Design and construction of low-cost, low-volume roads in Australia
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Article Title | Design and construction of low-cost, low-volume roads in Australia |
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ERA Journal ID | 4302 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Bullen, Frank |
Journal Title | Transportation Research Record |
Journal Citation | 1819 , pp. 173-179 |
Number of Pages | 7 |
Year | 2003 |
Place of Publication | Washington, D.C., United States |
ISSN | 0361-1981 |
2169-4052 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3141/1819b-22 |
Abstract | Inexpensive roads constructed by using local knowledge of material behavior have been shown to be capable of meeting rural traffic requirements without the need for importation of hard and expensive quarried crushed rock or gravel. In Australia, low-cost, low-volume roads are typically rural roads constructed in a broad range of operating environments, varying from arid to tropical. The areas that contain the longest length of rural roads, however, are arid or semiarid and are often subjected to periods with low levels of precipitation and high levels of evaporation, frequently followed by periods of intense rainfall. Locally available materials for road making may not meet the usual |
Keywords | highway operations; capacity; traffic control; rural road; country roads |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 400512. Transport engineering |
410699. Soil sciences not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Tasmania |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9zqv4/design-and-construction-of-low-cost-low-volume-roads-in-australia
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