Research Catalog

Title

Low-volume roads : proceedings of a workshop held June 16-19, 1975, in Boise, Idaho / by the Transportation Research Board, and cosponsored by the Agency for International Development ... [et al.].

Author

Workshop on Low-volume Roads (1975 : Boise, Idaho)

Publication

Washington : TRB, 1975.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
• United States. Agency for International Development

Description

396 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Special report - Transportation Research Board, National Research Council ; 160

Uniform Title

Special report (National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board) 160.

Subject

Low-volume roads > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.
• Kongress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Dilemmas in the administration, planning, design, construction, and maintenance of low-volume roads -- Highway design standards study -- Roads in developing countries -- Analytical planning techniques for national forest roads -- Modern county road systems -- Military interest in low-volume roads -- Managing a 200,000-mile road system: Opportunity and challenge -- Simplified slope design for low-standard roads in mountainous areas -- The forest service's computer-aided road design system -- Impacts of high-intensity rainstorms on low-volume roads and adjacent land -- A new approach to highway drainage design -- Investigation of precast and prestressed concrete bridges for low-volume roads -- Timber crib retaining structures -- Retaining wall practice and selection for low-volume forest roads -- Topometrics: A system for evaluating route alternatives -- Soil-lime mixtures for construction of low-volume roads -- Design, construction, and performance of a forest service asphalt-stabilized sand test road -- Use of asphalt rubber on low-cost, low-volume streets -- A method of field design applied to forest roads -- Load-supporting capability of low-volume roads -- Low-volume road pavements -- Experience with the Benkelman beam on Canadian forest roads -- New design method for secondary and subdivision roads in Virginia based on thickness equivalency values -- A pavement management concept for low-volume roads -- State of the art of emulsion pavements in region 6 of the U.S. Forest Service -- Methods for estimating traffic volumes and composition on national forest roads -- Economical structures for low-volume roads -- Minuteman access roads -- Forest road classification in Eastern Canada -- Optimal policies for transporting rock aggregate to low-volume roads --Techniques for measuring vehicle operating coast and road deterioration parameters in developing countries -- An investigation into road deterioration in Kenya -- Criteria for sealing or other surface maintenance on bituminous roads -- The Kenya road transport investment model -- Investigation of vehicle operating costs in Kenya -- Pavement design on lateritic clays: Ife-Benin City, Nigeria, trunk road rehabilitation project -- A proposed approach to setting road maintenance levels for forest service roads -- Methodology for establishing the economic viability of low-volume roads -- Sponsorship of this special report.

ISBN

0309024641

LCCN

^^^76001835^//r864

OCLC

2020501

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library