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CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering, Volume I Land and Water Engineering, Part 3.4 Construction of Rural Roads

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering, Volume I Land and Water Engineering, Part 3.4 Construction of Rural Roads, pp. 86-101  .(doi:10.13031/2013.36296)
Authors:   J. Amsler
Keywords:   Section headings: 3.4.1 Framework Conditions, 3.4.2 Concepts, 3.4.3 Substratum and Foundation, 3.4.4 Frost Problems, 3.4.5 Drainage, 3.4.6 Road Body, 3.4.7 Construction, 3.4.8 Other Types of Road Construction…

First paragraph: Access roads are generally the first infrastructural features to be installed in a rural or remote area. Such roads are designed to meet the needs of agriculture or forestry management. It is usually difficult to predict how an area will be developed. This will depend on several factors: the areas attractiveness for nonagricultural and nonforestry activities (tourism, residential use and leisure activities, quarrying, landfills, commercial fishing, transportation facilities, and so on); activities of the resident population (interest in the marketing of advantages, amenities); political planning preferences oriented either toward protection or utilization (landscape planning); natural physical requirements, including danger zones (avalanches, landslides, floods, etc.), water protection zones, zones with few human activities, species diversity (occurrence of rare species).

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