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Modern Trends in Highway Construction Technology

This document discusses modern trends in highway construction technology in India. It outlines objectives of safety, speed, success, sustainability, and innovation in highway projects. Specific technologies discussed include use of blended cement, accelerated construction methods, safety measures like audits and wider shoulders, and sustainable practices like reducing resource use and afforestation. The document also explores future technologies like using precast concrete blocks for pavements and acquiring land through long-term leases to improve construction speed and benefit land owners. The overall aim is to discuss the latest construction technologies to solve issues and share case studies.

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Modern Trends in Highway Construction Technology

This document discusses modern trends in highway construction technology in India. It outlines objectives of safety, speed, success, sustainability, and innovation in highway projects. Specific technologies discussed include use of blended cement, accelerated construction methods, safety measures like audits and wider shoulders, and sustainable practices like reducing resource use and afforestation. The document also explores future technologies like using precast concrete blocks for pavements and acquiring land through long-term leases to improve construction speed and benefit land owners. The overall aim is to discuss the latest construction technologies to solve issues and share case studies.

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Modern Trends in Highway

Construction Technology
Guide : Prof. Dr. Geetha Jayaraj

Shivajirao S. Jondhle College of Engineering &


Technology, Asangaon
Contents…
 Introduction
 Objective
 Safety
 Speed
 Success
 Sustainability
 Innovation
 Future Scope
Introduction…
 46,89,842 KM road network in India (2013)
 Second largest network in the world
 About 54% roads paved
 As in 2015, 24000 KM of four and six lane highways
 Major developments under National Highway
Development Program (NHDP)
 Policy delays and regulatory blocks – cause of reduced
speed
 Highways – 65% freight and 85% passenger traffic
 Transport sector – 4.7% contribution in GDP
Objective…
 Solution on technological issues
 Knowing latest technologies
 Case studies for sharing the technologies
 Steps for safety
 Steps for sustainability
 Innovation in technology
 
Safety
 Implementation of safety norms
 Safety audits, safety committee, strict rules, no overweighed
vehicles, etc.
 Constant gradients
 Constant gradient on main highways, gradient change for
crossing roads, tunnels at steep gradient roads
 Wider shoulders
 To be used as emergency lane, proper edging of lanes
 Design of safe interchanges and curves
 Illumination and sensors at dangerous spots and junctions
 Disaster rescue
 Medical help, ambulance service, super-speciality hospitals
Speed
 Fast land acquisition
 Improved compensation

 Fast technology
 Monsoon concreting, wax based curing, accelerated bridge
construction

 New material and equipment


 Use of slip-form, use of paver laying machines

 Speed in maintenance work


Success
 Quality
 Use of blended cement, use of geo-grid and geo-cell,
Pavement Condition Index

 Durability
 30 years design period, prefer concrete roads

 Techno-legal cell
 Documentation cell, revision of codes, frequent interactions
between authorities, dispute resolution cell, pre-bid fixing of
scope and terms
Sustainability
 Reduce, reuse and recycling
 Reduce resource use, use of plastic waste, reclaimed asphalt
pavement, cold mix to reduce temperature, ready mix asphalt
to reduce CO2 emission

 Afforestation
 Transplantation of trees, plantation of trees along highways

 Watershed management
 Rainwater harvesting, use of pervious concrete

 Other green highway techniques


 Local material, stone-plastic blocks, solar street lights and
signals
Innovation
 Pitching replaced by concrete blocks
 Strength, no possibility of collapse

 10% of project budget to be spent on innovation

 Closed tolling system


 Judicious charging of toll

 TILOS system
 Time and length based tracking of project

 White-topping of roads
 To reduce reflection temperature

 LIDAR system
 Similar to SONAR, to study geology
Future Scope
 Car travellators
 At junctions/intersections, to save fuel and time, to avoid cross
movements

 Car escalators
 At steep gradients, to avoid tunnels and diversions, to save fuel and
distance, to achieve economy

 Precast concrete blocks with tar finishing as highway pavements


 Strength, smoothness, durability, speed in construction, any season
construction

 Land acquisition on lease basis


 Long lease, share of toll and taxes to land-owners, continuous
generation of income for owners, govt. job offer – less share of
tax/tolls
Thank you….

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