One major deficiency in many developing countries' transport systems is the lack of low-volume roads that generally carry only 5-10 vehicles a day but provide some rural areas with their only link to markets and public service facilities. This report, available in English, French, and Spanish, is part of an AID-funded project to improve developing country access to existing information on the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of low-volume roads. This report's specific purpose is to synthesize--mainly for policymakers in the transportation ministry, planners of road programs and chief engineers in the road authority--existing literature on the meaning, concerns, and use of labor-based technologies in low-volume road construction and maintenance in the context of development. A wide range of labor-and equipment-based construction tools and methods (from hoes, picks, crowbars, and wheel-barrows to bulldozers and mechanized excavators and loaders) are discussed because no construction technology is entirely labor-based but instead spans a full spectrum of human, animal, and mechanical resource combinations. A general evaluation framework is presented to assist policymakers in choosing an appropriate mix of construction technologies which is technically, financially, socially, and economically feasible.
Transportation Technology Support for Developing Countries. Synthesis 3: Labor-Based Construction and Maintenance of Low-Volume Roads
1981
76 pages
Report
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English
Training and Technology Transfer for Low-Volume Roads in Developing Countries
Transportation Research Record | 1999
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