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    Civil engineering deals with various facilities, with highway engineering focusing on planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining highway systems. Highway systems are important for economic and transportation reasons, accounting for a significant portion of GDP, retail sales, freight tonnage, and passenger miles traveled. The history of highway development involved shifting pavement technologies from broken stone to asphalt and concrete surfaces, and the establishment of federal aid programs to fund the Interstate Highway System beginning in the 1950s. Highway systems in the US are classified by both functional roles in providing mobility vs access, and administrative control over planning and maintenance.

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    Civil engineering deals with various facilities, with highway engineering focusing on planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining highway systems. Highway systems are important for economic and transportation reasons, accounting for a significant portion of GDP, retail sales, freight tonnage, and passenger miles traveled. The history of highway development involved shifting pavement technologies from broken stone to asphalt and concrete surfaces, and the establishment of federal aid programs to fund the Interstate Highway System beginning in the 1950s. Highway systems in the US are classified by both functional roles in providing mobility vs access, and administrative control over planning and maintenance.

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    CE222 Highway Engineering

    Chapter 1 Notes
    Civil Engineering deals with various facilities, highway engineering deals with highway
    facilities in terms of planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance.
    1.

    Importance of Highway Systems


    14% of the total gross domestic product
    25% of retail sales
    43.4% intercity tonnage of freight
    27.2% total intercity ton-miles

    2.

    Highway Development History


    Road Construction
    1)
    2)
    3)

    Toll roads or turnpikes


    Golden age drove great western expansion, drove the construction of
    railroads and ceased the development of roads
    Motor vehicle emerged, farm-to-market roads and through roads were in
    great demand.

    Pavement Technology
    Broken-stone
    Surface

    Brick
    surface

    Concrete and Asphalt


    surface

    Federal Aid Programs

    Fed Road Act


    50-50 match
    Formula for fund
    Allocation:
    Area, Population,
    And mileage

    1916

    FAH
    Designated
    Interstate road
    Gasoline taxes

    1921

    National System
    of Interstate
    Highway System
    (Concept or plan)

    1944

    Interstate
    Highway
    System
    began

    1956

    3C, focusing
    on Urban area

    Urban Highway
    System, Social
    Economic and Environment
    Impacts

    1962

    1970

    ISTEA, end of construction


    NHS, Funding flexibility
    ITS

    1980

    TEA-21
    Reauthorization of ISTEA

    1991

    3.

    Surface Transportation Act


    4R act
    Deteriorating Highway
    Infrastructure

    1998

    Highway System in US: Classification


    Functional Classification:

    Accessibility and Mobility


    Figure 1-2

    Classes:
    Principle Arterials (Interstate Highways)
    Minor Arterials
    Collectors
    Local Highways
    Administrative Classification:
    Allocation of funds and authority for planning, design, construction,
    operation and maintenance of highways
    Classes:

    4.

    Federal-Aid Systems
    State Systems
    Local Systems
    Toll Roads

    Highway Numbering System

    Odd numbers for east-west interstate highways


    Even numbers for north-south interstate highways

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