It is envisaged that flood plains will be put into more active usage to meet the increasing demands for road infrastructural development as well as relieve the pressure exerted on arable lands owing to infrastructural development activities. This is consequent upon the general s…
Roads that are safe in all weathers are a prerequisite of modern society, and large amounts of money are spent, especially in winter, to make travel safe. This book brings together international expertise on planning 'weather proof' roads, operating safe road networks in bad wea…
"This book is a review of the ecological effects of roads. These effects include pollution, impacts on plant and animal habitats and disturbance to ecological systems. Many animals are killed by traffic. More importantly, new roads fragment natural habitats. By far the greatest …
"In 1928, A.M. Hamilton travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan, having been commissioned to build a road that would stretch from Northern Iraq, through the mountains and gorges of Kurdistan and on to the Iranian border. Now called the Hamilton Road, this was, even by today's standards, a …
Average annual daily traffic (AADT) is important in transportation engineering and planning, and although the State of Louisiana collects AADT on a regular basis on state-maintained highways, most parishes and smaller municipalities do not have the resources to collect AADT freq…
Least cost path analysis is considered by many scholars as being a good proxy for studying movement and interactions between sites in the landscape. Although it is widely used, there are many limitations and challenges yet to be overcome concerning the reliability of the results…
Roads represent the physical manifestation of the Roman transportation network in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Directly connected to this transportation network are its reasons for being: the transportation and supply of the army, the transportation of luxury goods from India (a…
