Explore: Road Design

Structural road design aims to ensure the road is strong enough for the expected number of vehicles in a certain number of years. The input of a calculation

transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels to ensure

The geometric design of roads is the branch of highway engineering concerned with the positioning of the physical elements of the roadway according to

contribute to the risk of collisions, including vehicle design, speed of operation, road design, weather, road environment, driving skills, impairment due to alcohol

Traffic calming uses physical design, signs, painted markings, road use rule changes, and other transportation engineering measures to improve safety

design. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads.[citation

third level is about reducing the crash risk which involves applying the road-design standards and guidelines (such as from AASHTO), improving driver behavior

permitted a user to design a pavement able to carry almost any desired number of transits of standard wheel loads. In such structural road design, the main inputs

The International E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe, Central Asia and Asia Minor, developed by the United Nations Economic Commission

maintenance, creating a hierarchy from national to local roads. Design type classification groups roads by geometric and operational characteristics, such as