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I am looking at road geometric design standards around the world. I have heard of a few of what could be described as "multi-country" standards, such as for the Asian Highway Network. Do you know...
16 July 2023 9,113 0 View
Is there a technical journal (in English) which presents new ideas in highway and traffic engineering but in a readable and understandable text ?
27 December 2022 5,642 4 View
Can anyone tell me which Spanish design guideline could give me the Spain values (and a typical cross-section) for the geometrics of a rural road with design speed of 50 km/hr? Regards, Robert
31 October 2022 4,979 1 View
Can anyone give examples of documents which suggest this practice? It seems not to be a good idea, but maybe there is some valid reasoning behind it.
05 July 2016 7,407 10 View
Wikipedia says that a paradigm is "a set of practices that define a scientific discipline at any particular period of time" and that "competing paradigms are frequently competing accounts of...
30 March 2014 7,456 8 View
As part of some research I am trying to collect and list the current highway design standards in different countries (see attached publication). Can anyone help with suggestions for other...
03 February 2014 1,315 2 View
Perhaps design rules are only developed from research and design standards written in the developer's own language; or perhaps a country's standards are developed from those of a geographically...
02 October 2013 5,383 4 View
Looking through geometric design standards and text books from the last forty years or so, the values given for side friction generally seem very similar. How can this be if there was (is) no...
29 July 2013 5,038 1 View
Most highway and traffic engineers agree that road classification and road hierarchy are essential to good road network management and traffic management. Most locations (whether a country or a...
17 April 2013 8,462 36 View
Are there any studies which relate a sense of "place" to scale? I believe road network hierarchy can be defined by speed in steps of 10 km/hr, and I wondered if similar step changes of scale can...
22 February 2013 3,395 16 View
I am collecting details on how roads are defined in terms of class or hierarchy in different countries. It's not so straightforward as might be thought. Results so far (and posted elsewhere...
11 February 2013 5,114 26 View
I am interested in finding out details of road classification, hierarchy and design standards in Egypt. I would be grateful for any help or suggestions.
21 January 2013 6,817 7 View
A couple of years ago I started to work on a car park assessment form, which was partly based on a document from Germany's ADAC. Now I want to update and extend the form. Does anyone know of any...
29 August 2012 7,582 13 View
