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Road Deterioration
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1.6 SIGNIFICANCE
The significance of this project include:
1. To prepare a paper that will serve as an academic tool, to help students handle related projects in future with confidence.
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To state its value to the inhabitants of the Naze Junction to Futo Gate
Road, as it will in no small measure help to alleviate transport and
traffic problems currently being experienced by its people, and users.
1.7 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
1. CARRIAGE WAY: It is the portion of the road designed and constructed for vehicular traffic.
2.
DETERIORATION: It is a gradual process whereby a structure losses its
initial quality or value due to age or defective construction. If not
given attention from time to time.
3. HIGHWAY: In a road system the important road like national highway and provincial highways are called highways.
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PREMATURE FAILURE: This is said to occur when the material what ever it
is, i.e wearing course, surface dressing or structural concrete etc,
has failed before its predicted design life has expired.
5. ROAD: It is defined as a convenient way over which vehicles and all sots of traffic can law fully move.
6. RING ROAD: It is a road constructed around an Urban Area to enable free flow of traffic.
7. SHOULDER: It is the portion immediately beyond the edges of a carriage way on which vehicular traffic may pass occasionally.
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SUB-GRADE: This is the top surface of a road bed on which the pavement
structure and shoulders including Kerbs are constructed.
9. TRAFFIC
CENSUS: This is the determination of the Average Daily Volume (ADV) of
vehicular traffic that uses a road hourly, in order to determine the
total volume of traffic anticipated during the design life of the
pavement/road.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project report is a study carried out to determine the causes and remedies to road deterioration. A case study of Naze Junction to Futo Gate Road, this study talks about the existence and development of tacks, researches made to discover the causes and remedies of road deterioration, the road structure/road maintenances. This project covers the methods used to determine the cause of the road deterioration by conducting, soil test and traffic census. It includes the pictures of the deteriora ... Continue reading---
