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Highway Construction & Engineering
Highway construction and engineering includes planning, designing, and building of highways. History…
Major/minor priority intersections
Introduction A priority intersection occurs between two roads, one termed the ‘major’…
The Design of Highway Intersections
Introduction A highway intersection is required to control conflicting and merging streams…
The ‘level of service’ approach
Introduction ‘Level of service’ describes in a qualitative way the operational conditions…
Highway CBA worked example
Introduction It is proposed to upgrade an existing single carriageway road to…
Use of economic indicators to assess basic economic viability
Once the two parameters of project life and discount rate are set…
Economic life, residual value and the discount rate
A highway project is often complex and long term, with the costs…
Identifying all relevant costs and benefits
The application of cost-benefit for project assessment in the highway area is…
Scheme Appraisal for Highway Projects
Introduction Once a transportation plan has been finalised and the demand along…
