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Serves rural settlement situated next to the Expensive rock works, successive
water course mountain pass
Width of pavement
gradient
Camber/ cross fall
Sight distance
Super elevation
Radius of horizontal curves
Widening at curves
Setback distance
Transition curves
Vertical curves
Hair pin bends
Special Structures in hill road
Structures that are extensively used in hill
roads
Are used to retain soil mass
Increase the stability of road embankment
slopes and natural hill slopes
Accommodate road bed in steep slope
River training and erosion control
Prevent bed scour, toe cutting by rivers
Types
Retaining structures
Drainage
Slope protection works
Retaining walls
Are constructed for the propose of retaining
or supporting a vertical or nearly vertical earth
bank
Cost nearly 20% of total cost
Constructed under situations like
To support a road either wholly or partly on fill
To support the toe of a slope that has failed or
likely to fail
When width can not be extended due to property
line or other reason
As revetment wall to prevent erosion on steepy
slopes
Classification of retaining walls
Material-dry masonry, stone filled gabion,
mortar masonry, pcc, Rcc