HIGHWAY ENGINEERING

TOPIC
 HIGHWAY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

• Brief history of roads • Computation and Survey

• Early laws that regulates roadway
• Highways in the Philippines
• Planning Difficulties
• Highway programming
• The planner
• Community involvement
• Highway economy
• Remote Sensing
• Photogrammetric mapping
• Orthophotographs
• Colored Photographs
• Location of the Proposed highway
• Location of Bridges
• Highway Plans and Specifications
 DESIGNING THE HIGHWAY
• Consistency
• Stopping Sight Distance
• Definition of Terms
• The Passing Sight Distance
• The Design Speed
• Road Alignment
• Cross Section of Typical Highways
• Circular curves
• Road Shoulder
• Super Elevation-Runoff
• Cross slope
• Widening of Curves
• Cut or fill Slope
• Island
• Number of Lanes
• Types of Interchange
• Highway Median
• Highway intersection at grade
• The Grade Line
• Freeway Entrance and exit
• Vertical Curve over crest
• Railroad-Highway Separation
• Right of way
• Bicycle lane
 ROAD MATERIALS
• Aggregates
• Aggregates for Bituminous Pavement • Asphalt Concrete Pavement

• Aggregate for Portland Cement Concrete • Bituminous Pavement Failure

Pavement • Macadam Asphalt Mat
• Mineral Filler • Surface Treatment
• Bituminous Material • Aggregate for Bituminous Concrete
• Bituminous Binders • DPWH Standard Specifications on Primer
• Problems Associated with Bituminous Coat Tack Coat and Seal Coat
Binders • Geoplastic Fabrics
• Bituminous Pavement
 DRAINAGE AND SLOPE PROTECTION

• Drainage • Debris Control

• Hydrology • The legal aspect of Drainage
• Drainage economic considerations • Roadway Design and Construction for
• Draining the highway unusual Soil Conditions

• Manhole, Inlets and Catch Basin • Stabilizing the Unsupported slope

• Channel • Improving the Stability of Slope

• Culvert • Retaining wall

• Design of Underdrain • Highway Bridges

 CONSTRUCTING THE ROADBED
• Soil as Structure
• Types of Base Course
• Treated Base Course
• Grading and Maintenance of Untreated
Surface
• DPWH Standard Specifications on
Aggregate Sub-Base Course
• Clearing and Grubbing
• Excavation
• Freehaul-Overhaul
• Construction of fills and Embankment
• Sub-grade Preparation
• Compaction and Stabilization
 CONCRETE PAVEMENT
• Portland Cement
• Concrete Pavement Characteristics and
• Curing of Concrete Pavement
Behavior • DPWH Specifications on Concrete Pavement
• Control of Cracks • Equipment
• Transverse Expansion Joints • Preparation of Grade
• Longitudinal Joints • Handling Measure and Batching of Materials
• Construction Joint • Placing or Depositing of Concrete
• Reinforcement of Joints • Final Consolidation and Finishing
• The Sub-grade and Sub-base for concrete • Curing
pavement
• Removal of forms
• Concrete Proportions
• Concreting by the Slip form Method
• Concrete Mixtures
• Tolerance and Pavement thickness
• Polymer Concrete
 ROAD MAINTENANCE

• Highway beautification
• Highway Maintenance
• Environmental Laws
• Maintenance Management
• Environmental effects of highways
• Rehabilitation
• Construction and relation to roadside
• Evaluation and maintenance of Concrete development
Pavement
• Vegetation and the highways
• Highway and its Environment
• Parking and rest areas