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Dimitri
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| | Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 09:03 am: | |
I am desperatly looking for a complete technical book or reports about dirt roads, providing info about design and maintenance.
Can anyone indicate me a website where to download such a book or at least find good info? I am interested even if it is only about laterite soils or only about maintenance.
I have been in the specialised bookshops of Paris, and on many ressources sites on the web, no way to find it. But I remember I have seen some good books some months ago, but they were issued from very old collections.
Thank you |
Chantal McIlveen-Wright
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Username: Chantal
Post Number: 4
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 11:52 am: | |
Sorry I cannot point you to a book; but 40 years ago in Botswana, I was taught by the Public Works Dept to "look after the drainage, and the road will look after itself."
Hardly an idea unknown to the enquirer anyway, I suspect!
Andrew. |
Mark Hammersley
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Username: Mark
Post Number: 46
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 01:00 pm: | |
The International Focus Group on Rural Road Engineering provide a series of Technical Information Notes including a document on the construction and maintenance of earth roads: http://www.transport-links.org/IFG-BRA/documents/document_view.asp?id=2 |
Chris Piper
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Username: Cpiper
Post Number: 10
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 01:50 pm: | |
> [I'm not an engineer or anything of that ilk, but if I was faced with this problem I'd look at publications produced by the Intermediate Technology Development Group (IDTG) at www.itdg.org
Chris DownUnder] |
David Sacco
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| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 05:56 pm: | |
The following links will connect you to manauls that you can download and print (free) from the internet with information on dirt roads. They relate more to evaluating and maintaining roads than to new construction, but they should be helpful as background information, at least.
http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/information/usace-docs/armytm/tm5-626/entire.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/unpavedroads/ch1.pdf
http://tic.engr.wisc.edu/Manuals/Gravel-PASERcontent.pdf
The following are written specifically for logging roads, but they seem to have some useful bits in them.
http://www.odf.state.or.us/DIVISIONS/management/state_forests/RoadsManual/RMSEC3 -DESN.pdf
http://www.frc.state.mn.us/guidebook/Roads1.pdf |
Sue Stoneman
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 10:26 am: | |
Many of TRL's Overseas Road Notes can be downloaded from the following web site www.transport-links.org and some may help with work on unpaved roads.
The site also has a research area where documents can be found within the different project reports, plus there is within the "Related Web site" area a Rural Transport Policy Toolkit, Rural Transport Knowledge Base and the web site of the International Focus Group on Rural Road Engineering.
Regards
Sue Stoneman
International Knowledge and Information Centre Co-ordinator
TRL Limited |
Jim Clarke
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 12:04 pm: | |
check out 'Access in Emergencies' this is a specialised technical group with extensive experience in low cost solutions to roads and bridge problems.
They available thru RedR's Technical Support Service.
Jim Clarke |
Egbert Lwiza
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| | Posted on Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:56 am: | |
Find unesco book "Low cost roads, Design, construction and Maintainance, Butterworth, London, 1971". I hope you will got useful information. |
Paul Rayar
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| | Posted on Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:02 pm: | |
Dear Dimitri
Pursuant to your need for dirt road or feeder road repair, I am sending you below brief information on our technology. If you wish more specific and more detailed information, please let me hear.
Our RUBACON programme – based on utilisation of secondary and renewable resources - includes a group of interrelated projects with the key project, affordable shelter and housing, at the core. The ‘RENEW’ project for developing Biogas (alternative energy), natural fertilizer and micro-mineral powder from agricultural residues and animal dung, is one of the major ancillary projects.
Other projects making up the programme include: a solar energy water harvesting system for providing people with both hot and cold water, a process for utilisation of ceramic waste to produce surface-glazed ceramic tiles sans kiln, durable sewer, water and irrigation pipe, low-cost road construction and technology for cleansing of polluted waterways.
Please note that implementation of the Arcilla technology, as described in the special paper on the technology transfer plan, is unique and direct. It is aimed first and foremost at the needs of the people, particularly the poor and homeless. Rather than creating joint ventures which return profits to industrial partners in economically well-off countries, Arcilla seeks to transfer its know-how to host-country entrepreneurs. This will take place after a brief period during which the technology has been adapted to locally-available resources and the materials properties have been examined in the context of product development work by a host-country institution; the role of Arcilla in the technology transfer process is thus catalytic.
I would be most pleased to send you and those you may suggest a copy of the detailed RUBACON programme and our implementation plan for transfer of the technology.
I indeed look forward to learn from you how we can best proceed.
For further details on Arcilla Research and its technology, you are cordially invited to visit our website: www.arcillaresearch.com
Sincerely
Paul Rayar
ARCILLA RESEARCH
Julianastraat 50 T +31 43 455 1482
6285 AK Epen F +31 43 455 2091
Netherlands E arcilla@planet.nl |
David Stiedl
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| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 04:11 pm: | |
Hi Dimitri
There is a lot of information out there. The important thing is to decide if you are building an all weather “engineered” road with minimum design speeds, gravel layers of specified grading and thickness etc, or something that will give reasonably reliable access for robust small vehicles (4WD, small trucks etc), bicycles, animal powered vehicles, motorcycles etc. Sometimes all you need is the improvement of a few “spots”, usually critical small structures or swamp crossings. This sort of basic access is often the most suitable and sustainable for rural communities with subsistence economies.
The difference in cost can be quite large, (you won’t get an engineered gravel road for much less than 20,000 US$/km, but you might be able to get reliable basic access for 2,000 to 5,000).
Maintenance is the key, and if you can’t set up a local maintenance system, probably locally funded, you may be wasting your time. Earth roads seldom last a season without some sort of attention (however 100 to 150 worker days a km each year will usually do it. The trick is to put in place a system that can ensure that level of input, (voluntary or paid)
The TRL and IFRTD sources have already been mentioned. They are very good (TRL have just produced a new Overseas Road Note number 20, management of rural road networks. There is also a very good ILO web site: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/recon/eiip/asist
that deals with using labour intensive methods of construction and maintenance. They have a searchable document database, but down load their Source Book to get an idea of what is available. Hindson’s book on earth road construction is very good (already mentioned and available from ITDG).
Lots of projects have produced good country specific guidelines and the ILO can probably advise you. I am aware of practical manuals for many counties: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Benin, Cambodia, Nepal, Nicaragua just to mention a few. There should be one that suits the conditions where you are working.
Regards
Dave Stiedl
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Imran Musa
Member
Username: Imran_musa
Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 06:25 pm: | |
This is fantastic information. I am a public health person but I found it very pertinent to building my knowledge on something that is a critical component of developing the health status of large groups of people (districts/counties/provinces). Best wishes. Imran Musa. Islamabad. Pakistan. |
John Twigg
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| | Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 02:20 pm: | |
Suggest that Dmitri contacts the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
IFRTD
113 Spitfire Studios
63-71 Collier Street
London N1 9BE
UK
Tel: +44 20 7713 6699
Fax: +44 20 7713 8290
www.ifrtd.org
Dr John Twigg
Hon. Research Fellow
Benfield Hazard Research Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; phone +44-(0)20-7679-2436; email j.twigg@ucl.ac.uk; website http://www.benfieldhrc.org |
Gary Taylor
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| | Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 05:01 pm: | |
Dimitri
You appear to be well swamped with answers! Here is a specific reference, although a bit old to be on the net.
"Earth Roads - A practical guide to earth road construction and maintenance" - Jack Hindson: revised by John Howe and Gordon Hathaway. ITDG 1983. ISBN 0 903031 84 1
Gary Taylor
I.T.Transport Ltd
itt@ittransport.co.uk |
David Tighe
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| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 05:08 pm: | |
The ILO Asist and DFID websites are useful (see also links in my website). In fact there is an absolutely enormous body of literature on the subject. Try simply as key words: construction maintenance earth gravel roads on Google. Many manuals exist, produced for specific projects (Madagascar, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana). Again ILO is a good source,
Yours,
David Tighe
www.ruralroads.org |
Simon Done
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| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 05:13 pm: | |
TRL has recently produced a document entitled Overseas Road Note 20 - Management of Rural Road Networks. It may be of use. It covers the range of issues involved in rural roads, and is aimed towards unpaved and low volume roads. It has less of the detailed design, although a number of aspects (camber, mitre drains, etc) are included. It can be seen, and downloaded, at:
http://www.transport-links.org/transport_links/index.asp
If you would prefer a hard copy, we can send one or two free of charge.
Have a look, and let me know if interested.
Regards,
Simon Done |
Marcus Wattam
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| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 11:41 am: | |
It depends on what type of dirt road you want. On our website (www.ittransport.co.uk) there is a manual on footpath and track improvement and maintenance which covers dirt or earth for the more PC term.
The online library at ILO ASIST is another source (Geneva Site , Bangkok Site)
Hope this helps
Marcus Wattam
I.T. Transport Limited
Consultants in Transport for Development
www.ittransport.co.uk
Direct: +44 (1235) 437805, Office: +44 (1235) 833753, Fax: +44 (1235) 832186
The Old Power Station, Ardington, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8QJ, United Kingdom. |
Mark Hammersley
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Username: Mark
Post Number: 49
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 12:10 pm: | |
ILO have an online technical manual intended to be a field-reference for engineers and supervisors working on rural road construction projects: http://www.iloasist.org/Downloads/tmlbt.pdf [1.8 MB].
There are several other helpful documents under "Implementation" at in the "Reference Literature" section of their web site (www.iloasist.org) |
Peter Guthrie
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| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 08:37 pm: | |
I am expert at nothing but did write a book on Building Roads by Hand which was exclusively for earth and gravel roads. Published by Longman, authors Jim Antoniou (illustrator) me and Jan de Veen (Client ILO)
If Dimitri is looking to build roads by machine the book would still be of some but limited value. Hamish Goldie Scot also at Scott Wilson knows plenty about unmettalled roads too.
Best wishes
Peter |
David Stiedl
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 11:12 am: | |
I think Peter is being unduly modest. Its a great book, and may be still available from the ILO. Lots of good illustrations, very good for introducing concepts to non engineers and people not used to text books (or intimidated by them)
Building Roads by Hand: An introduction to labour-based road construction J. Antoniou, P. Guthrie and J. de Veen1990, x+90 pp. Prepared for the International Labour Office by Longman, UKISBN 0-582-06060-5UKŁ 3.95
At the other extreme is Highway and Traffic Engineering in Developing Countries edited by Bent Thagesen, published by Spon ISBN 0-419-20530-6. Covers everything. Excellent but deeply serious.
I think UNESCO's Low Cost Roads has been out of print for many years. Does anybody have a copy?
Nice to see all the usual suspects contributing to this discussion.
Regards
Dave Stiedl |
Dane Fredenburg
Member
Username: D_fredenburg
Post Number: 1
Registered: 09-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 15, 2003 - 06:46 am: | |
I will not add to the excellent resources already listed, but only remind you that if your project is USAID FFP/Title II-funded, you will need to comply with Reg. 216 environmental regulations. The FAM website (http://www.foodaidmanagement.org) and CARE both have some good resources and links to help.
Dane Fredenburg
Logistics Technical Advisor
Catholic Relief Services/Emergency Response Team |
Nigel Ings
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| | Posted on Friday, September 26, 2003 - 05:52 pm: | |
There is a wealth of guidance on design & maintenance of gravel and earth roads which has been produced over the years. However, many of us are trying to encourage engineers to move away from traditional (and costly) notions of a "road", and to think instead in terms of access and mobility. This has quite profound implications on technical standards and specifications.
Regards
Nigel Ings
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Tel. +1 202 473 0767, Fax +1 202 473 8038
email: nings@worldbank.org
Have you visited the SSATP Website?
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp/
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John Manoochehri
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| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 06:36 pm: | |
Greetings. This thread seems a bit out of date, but in any case I can suggest - though I'm not sure that 'dirt roads' is a sufficiently narrow specification - that you look out for the Nepal 'Green Roads' concept. This was/is a two-fold track that tries to reduce environmental impact and increase participation in the road development process. It was pioneered by the Germans. Check out:
http://www.gtz.de/nepal/downloads/GREENROADS.PDF
for some basic background. There's lots more. You can email me, and/or have a search online (try Google under 'Nepal Green Roads' and you'll get some good basic info on this, with more links to the relevant organisations.
Good luck.
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Gregorio Villacorta Alegria
Member
Username: Shapshico
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 02:54 am: | |
Hi, Can somebody help me with a manual about thickness design of gravel roads::: I'll be agradecido, sorry my bad english , the manual I need to my tesis of antegrado..
saludos Y un abrazo
B.Sc Gregorio Villacorta Alegria
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bright kwesi froson
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Username: Adjeimolar
Post Number: 2
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 03:32 pm: | |
i am an engineerimg writing a research on highways and traffic in ghana.i am desperately looking for where to get a copy of this book. HIGHWAY AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERING IN Developing Countries Edited by bentBent Thagesen of the Technical niversity of Denmark |
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