Roads and Pavements

PMGSY

PMGSY– a success story!

Of all the government's sponsored flagship schemes to promote holistic rural development in terms of providing basic services to country's hinterlands, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY)...

Schematic Flexible Pavement Crust Section

Geosynthetic Applications in Pavement Construction

The pavement is a structural entity which takes up cyclic stresses from various types of vehicles that are deemed to ply along the selected route over its designated life. The pavement surface is required...

Concrete Slipform Pavers

Concrete Slipform Pavers- Latest Technologies and Paving Techniques

Good quality concrete pavement requires quality material, suitable road design, high quality equipment, and quality control at all stages of construction. Although, concrete roads are supposed to last long...

Whitetopping

Durable and Cost Effective Concrete Overlay on City Bituminous Roads: Whitetopping

Concrete is a very durable material for the construction of roads and highways. Several highways, expressway, and city roads have been constructed with cement concrete in the recent past in India...

Stone Matrix Asphalt

Stone Matrix Asphalt Indian Experiences

Over the years India has seen a tremendous rise not only in the traffic volume, but heavy loading as well. Vehicles carrying heavy loads, have special designed tyres, which are inflated to high pressure,...

Cold Asphalt Mixes

Cold Asphalt Mixes for Indian Highways Environment Friendly Technology

Cold asphalt mix is produced by mixing unheated mineral aggregate with either emulsified bitumen or foamed bitumen. Unlike hot mix asphalt (HMA), cold asphalt mix does not require any heating of...

Full Depth Reclamation

Full Depth Reclamation – A Technique for Improving Roads with Poor Underlying layers

Roads are a necessity for the modern life – and more specifically, good roads are essential for an efficient transportation system. Quite often roads deteriorate not because of the poor quality of the surface...

Road Transport Sector

Some Suggestions for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Road Transport Sector

Greenhouse gas emissions from the operation of road vehicles are a matter of serious concern in the world and India. As the number of vehicles is growing rapidly in India, India's contribution to the global...

Concrete Roads

Little Known Facts About Concrete Roads

In recent years, due to the increasing use of cement concrete as a road building material, a number of articles on 'concrete roads' have been published in NBM&CW, as well as other technical journals...

Flexible Pavements

Achieving Good Riding Quality for Flexible Pavements

For many years, researchers have been working on development of latest equipment for pavement construction to obtain better and sustainable surface. Significant advancements have been made...

Durgapur Xpressway

Highway Sector- Riding the Waves of New Change

Developments taken place in the highway sector during the last few months have proved wrong the French saying that more it is changed, the more it remains the same. Riding the waves of new...

Hybrid Annuity Model

Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM): A Game Changer in Road sector

Road sector continues to be a formidable force to revive the capital expenditure cycle in the badly battered Infrastructure sector. While much has been talked about the evolution of the sector the Model...

krishnagiri WP Road

Sustainable Road Construction Technology

ACC Set up the first commercial Ready Mix concrete plant in Mumbai in 1994. It Concrete is one of the largest Ready Mix Concrete manufacturers with a network of...

Flexible Pavements

Flexible Pavements with Bituminous Construction and New Technologies

The heavy wheel loads and fast traffic on modern highways require adequate cover called the pavement on the natural soil to provide a hard wearing surface and to distribute the loads within the bearing capacity...

Highway Projects in India

Opportunities and Challenges of Highway Projects in India

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is responsible for the formulation of policies relating to regulation of road transport in the country, besides making/monitoring arrangements for vehicular...

Asphalt Pavement in United States

Utilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in the United States

Recycling of asphalt pavements started around 1915 in the United States, but it did not become a common practice until later (1970s) when asphalt binder prices skyrocketed as a result of...

Increase in Cost of Maintenance

Climate Change – It’s High Time to Consider the Impacts on Roadway Pavements

Research has clearly shown (and continues to do so) that as a result of changing global climatic patterns countries are becoming increasingly vulnerable to devastating damage to the infrastructure – for example...

Slope Protection Works

Slope Protection Works for Rockfall Prevention in NH-22

NH–22 connects the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. In this road, Zirakpur to Parwanoo stretch (length 17.5 km) has now been four-laned. A part of this four lane road has been...

Road Sector Wirtgen Cold Mining

Road Sector Picks up Pace

Government is currently going all out to revive the road sector and in the first year of taking over reins at the Centre, it has taken multiple initiatives to boost stakeholders' interest in the sector and appears...

Road Builders

The Indian Road Experience: Challenges and Possibilities

Driving on Indian roads is a harrowing experience. Ambitious agenda of road and infrastructure improvement is a priority of governments at the centre as well as in the states. While various...

Indian Road Infrastructure

India’s Future Road Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities

With a population of 1.1 billion, growing at 1.6 per cent per annum, India may have a population of 1.3 billion in the year 2020 – almost equal to the projected population of China. With 60% of the present...

Toll Mechanism

Study of Shadow Toll Mechanism with the Experience of International Countries

The United Kingdom pioneered the concept and practice of shadow tolls mechanism in 1990s through its implementation of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). It is a strategic economic policy...

Precast Construction of Viaduct

Precast Construction of a 10km Long Viaduct: A Boon to Industry

A major metro city of Southern India, Bangalore, has developed a major commercial hub called Electronic City in South-West of Bangalore. The area employs several hundreds of thousands of workers, majority...

Cement Concrete

Cement Concrete For Durable Roads

The present stock of roads in India is out-dated, congested, wasteful of resources and extremely unsafe. India is losing its competitive advantage in the global economy because of its poor roads...

Urban Traffic Interchange

Delhi plans and designs major urban traffic interchanges

Sometimes urban infrastructures for facilitating traffic are created for a specific purpose. New flyovers and traffic interchanges were created for the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi as mobility was perceived...

Pavement Blocks

Eco-friendly Pavement Blocks of Waste Glass, Fly Ash, and Dust

Pavement blocks, which are industrial products of pre-fabricated unarmed concrete, having various dimensions and special morphology, are used for pavement laying of residential projects carrying...

Roads

Development of Combined Pavement Condition Prediction Model for Flexible Pavements

In any country, road network is the backbone of national development. India has about 4.3 million kilometer of road network which is one of the largest network in the world. This road network is carrying 85%...

UNiSTEEL SRCP750

New Dimensions in Construction of Rigid Pavements

The main concrete roadwork for city roads was started in Mumbai in 1924. Marine Drive (Netaji Subhash Chandra Road) was constructed in 1938-1939 using semi mechanized methods. This road was laid...

Asphalt Pavement

Maintenance Aspects of Asphalt Pavements for Roads and Highways

In General, Maintenance of Roads and Highways is an important activity to be carried out by Departments of Rural Roads, Roads & Highways. The life of an asset can be preserved and prolonged...

Road Transport

Effect of Ageing on the Performance Properties of Bitumen

Road transport is the most sought transport mode and a good road network is the basic requisite for the sustained economic growth of a country. Globally, more than 80% of roadways are built as flexible...

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