LOW-VOLUME ROAD ENGINEERING DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

Everything that sustains us – grown, mined, or drilled – begins its journey to us on a low-volume road (Long). Defined as roads with traffic volumes of no more than 400 vehicles per day, they have enormous impacts on economies, communication, and social interaction. Low-volume roads comprise, at one end of the spectrum, farm-to-market roads, roads in developing countries, northern roads, roads on aboriginal lands and parklands; and at the other end of the spectrum, heavy haul roads for mining, oil and gas, oil sands extraction, and forestry. It is a single reference drawing from the dispersed literature. It lays out the basic principles of each topic, from road location and geometric design, pavement design, slope stability, and erosion control, through construction to maintenance, then refers the reader to more comprehensive treatment elsewhere.