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1.1 Pavement Applications - Highway Classification System

The document discusses factors that influence highway design such as functional classification, design speed, and topography. It then describes different highway classification systems including an urban system of principal and minor arterials, collectors, and local streets, as well as the Philippines' national, provincial, municipal, and barangay road classifications. It requests an assignment to determine design requirements for different road types.

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1.1 Pavement Applications - Highway Classification System

The document discusses factors that influence highway design such as functional classification, design speed, and topography. It then describes different highway classification systems including an urban system of principal and minor arterials, collectors, and local streets, as well as the Philippines' national, provincial, municipal, and barangay road classifications. It requests an assignment to determine design requirements for different road types.

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Factors Influencing Highway Design

• Functional Classification
• Design hourly traffic volume and vehicle mix
• Design speed
• Design vehicle
• Cross section of the highway, such as lanes, shoulders and medians
• Presence of heavy vehicles on steep grades
• Topography of the area that the highway traverses
• Level of Service
• Availability of funds
• Safety
• Social and environmental factors
Highway Functional Classification
Urban Principal Arterial System
• C.M. Recto Avenue, serves the major activity centers of the
urban area and consists mainly of the highest-traffic-volume
corridors.
Urban Minor Arterial System
• Streets and highways that interconnect with and augment the
urban primary arterials.
Urban Collector Street System
• Collect traffic from local streets in residential areas or in CBDs
and convey it to the arterial system.
Urban Local Street System
• All other streets within the urban area
DPWH New Classification System
• National Primary – directly connects major cities (≥ 100,000 pop)
• National Secondary – directly connects national primary roads,
ports, airports, secondary roads, cities, provincial capitals, national
government infrastructure or other national secondary roads
• National Tertiary – other roads used as local function
• Provincial Roads – connects, cities and municipalities not along
national roads, barangays through rural areas and major provincial
government infrastructure
• Municipal and City Roads – within Poblacion, connects provincial
and national roads, provide inter-barangay connections to major
municipal and city infrastructure not along provincial roads
• Barangay Roads – Other public roads in barangays not covered by
above
• Expressways – limited access, normally with interchanges; includes
facilities for levying tolls in open and closed system.
DPWH New Classification System
National Primary Roads
MC MC
Tertiary Roads Expressways

National Secondary Roads


CC

T
• Ports, airports, ferry terminals and national B
government infrastructures
• Note: B B
• MC, major cities
• CC, other cities
• T, Town
• B, Barangay
NAIA Expressway in Metro Manila Area:
Assignment:
• Determine at least 4 design requirements for high-speed
highways.
• Determine at least 4 design requirements for an urban
road.
• Determine at least 2 design requirements for rural roads.
• Determine at least 2 design requirements for car, coach
and lorry parks.
• Determine at least 1 design requirement for ports and
heavy industrial pavements and 4 for airfield pavements.
• Using the previous assignment describe if the requirements
apply for the given road (urban or rural).

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