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Cengr 3130 - Highway and Railroad Engineering Lecture 1: Highway Design Basic History

The document provides information about highway design and classification. It discusses the early history of road development from Greek streets to accommodate wheeled transport. It outlines highway design standards that consider traffic flow, safety, and cost. The document then describes different highway types based on number of lanes and access control. It classifies highways according to system as national, provincial, municipal, etc. based on right-of-way widths and grades. It also categorizes highways according to primary function as expressways, freeways, and parkways depending on traffic control and access.

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Cengr 3130 - Highway and Railroad Engineering Lecture 1: Highway Design Basic History

The document provides information about highway design and classification. It discusses the early history of road development from Greek streets to accommodate wheeled transport. It outlines highway design standards that consider traffic flow, safety, and cost. The document then describes different highway types based on number of lanes and access control. It classifies highways according to system as national, provincial, municipal, etc. based on right-of-way widths and grades. It also categorizes highways according to primary function as expressways, freeways, and parkways depending on traffic control and access.

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CEngr 3130 – Highway and Railroad Engineering

Lecture 1: HIGHWAY DESIGN

Basic History

Greek street - 4th or 3rd century BC - The Porta Rosa was the main street of Elea.

The street is five meters wide and has an incline of 18% in the steepest part. It is paved with limestone
blocks and on one side, there is a small gutter for drainage.

Wheels were developed for cargo.


Wheeled-transport created the need for better roads (Chariots, etc).
Road designs were established (logs, bricks, sandstone blocks, sands).
Use for transport of merchants, trading, and wars.

Design Standards

A highway engineer’s concern is to design roads that would adequately handle expected traffic and
ensure that roads are safe and pleasant to drive on.

Standards have been developed as guide in the design of highways and to ensure that motorist’s
convenience, environmental safety and aesthetic consideration, are implemented in the most
economical manner consistent with highway service conditions. Design policies and standards generally
represent minimum values.
HIGHWAY TYPES/CLASSIFICATION

Highway Types

▪ 2-Lane Highways
▪ Multi Lane Highways (4 or more lanes)
▪ Undivided Highways
▪ Multilane divided Highways

Classification According to System


▪ National Roads
❑Road Right of way = 20 m, minimum
❑Width of travelled way 2 lane = 6.70 m, minimum
❑Allowable grade = 6%, maximum

Public roads, declared as national roads, National roads are classified as primary and
secondary roads. The former forms the part of the main highway trunk-line system which is
continuous in extent; the latter includes all access roads forming a secondary trunk-line system.

▪ Provincial Roads
❑Road Right of way = 15 m, minimum
❑Width of travelled way 2 lane = 6.10 m, minimum
❑Allowable grade = 6%, maximum

These are roads connecting one municipality to another, with the terminal to be the
public plaza; plus roads extending from one municipality or from a provincial or national road to
a public wharf or railway station .

▪ Municipal Roads
❑Road Right of way = 15 m, minimum
❑Width of travelled way 2 lane = 6.10 m, minimum
❑Allowable grade = 6%, maximum

Roads / streets within the urban area of a city not classified as provincial or national
roads.

▪ City Roads
❑Road Right of way = 10 m, minimum
❑Width of travelled way 2 lane = 4 m, minimum
❑Allowable grade = 10 %, maximum

Roads / streets within the Poblacion area of a Municipality not classified as provincial or
national roads.

▪ Barangay Roads
❑Road Right of way = 6 m, minimum
❑Width of travelled way 2 lane = 4 m, minimum
❑Allowable grade = 10 %, maximum

Roads located outside the poblacion area of a municipality or urban area of a city and
those outside industrial, commercial or residential subdivision (access roads to subdivisions are
not barangay roads), and which act as a feeder from Farm-to-market road, and are not
otherwise classified as national, provincial, city or municipal roads.

According to Primary Function


▪ Expressway
These are divided arterial highways for through traffic, with full or partial control of
access and generally with grade separations at major intersections.

▪ Freeways
A freeway is a "controlled-access" highway — also known as an express highway —
that's designed exclusively for high-speed vehicular traffic.

Traffic flow on a freeway is unhindered because there are no traffic signals,


intersections, or at-grade crossings with other roads, railways, or pedestrian paths.

▪ Parkways
Parkways are arterial highways for non-commercial traffic with full or partial control of
access, usually located within a park or a ribbon of park-like development.

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