New Twist for Stabilized Roads.

Author(s)
Wright, D.
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Abstract

Surface grading, aggregate loss, and dust palliatives required to safely maintain heavily used gravel roads can approach $20,000 per km per year. An example of this is the Tahsis Road on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The road is multi-purpose, and serves as the only public access to a community, a main log haul route, and numerous recreational users in the summer months. Complicating maintenance, the road has grades of up to 18 percent and is used by industry's 150-tonne logging trucks. In response, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation District Staff in consultation with others, commenced small-scale field trials in 2000 for a 'New Twist' for a Stabilized Hard Surface Road. Three steps have evolved to the new relatively simple twist and are covered in this paper. The end result when correctly applied results in a sealed hard surface road that will carry heavy loads. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E216511.

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C 42300 (In: C 42299 CD-ROM) /33 /36 / ITRD E216519
Source

In: Transportation : an economic enabler : proceedings of the 2007 annual conference and exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada TAC, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 14-17, 2007, 23 p., 4 ref.

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