Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapiter 1 - General design
- Objectives of road design
- Guiding design principles
- Definition of general characteristics
- Staged development
- Overtaking sections (on two-way single-carriageway roads, type 4.1 and 4.2)
Chapiter 2 - Visibility
- General provisions
- Visibility of obstacles
- Visibility on bends
- Visibility at standard at-grade junctions or access points
- Visibility at roundabouts
- Visibility on approach and in a slip lane or deceleration lane
- Visibility under structures
- Visibility of arrester beds
- Visibility at a stopping point or ancillary area
- Overtaking visibility
- Approach visibility of lane reduction transitions
- Visibility of pedestrian crossings
- Visibility of PT stops
- Existing roads
Chapiter 3 - Cross-sections
- Elements of cross-sections
- Dimensions of elements of cross-sections
- Existing roads
- Crossfall
- Change in cross-section
- Overtaking sections
- Cross-section across engineering structures
- Equipped median strip
Chapiter 4 - Horizontal and vertical alignment
- Horizontal alignment
- Vertical alignment
- Coordination of horizontal and vertical alignment
Chapiter 5 - Junctions
- General design
- Design of standard at-grade junctions
- Design of roundabouts
- Special developments inspired by standard junctions and roundabouts
- Design of half junctions (without access systems)
- Design of half junctions with access systems
Chapiter 6 - Roads in difficult or restricted terrain
- General design
- Cross-sections
- Horizontal alignment
- Vertical alignment
- Co-ordination of horizontal and vertical alignment
- Junctions
- Designing roadsides
- Road restraint systems
Treatment of transitions
- Approaching urban areas
- Approaching and passing through hamlets
- Approaching bends
- Approaching junctions
- Transition between two types of roads
- Transition between two categories on the same type of road
- Transition between two different sections with different levels of function
Road equipment - Services - Use of the road 103
- General
- Signage
- Rumble strips
- Road restraint systems
- Collection, processing and drainage of rainwater runoff
- Noise abatement facilities
- Street lighting
- Parking options and other user services
- Public transport stops
Appendices
- Appendix A - Spaces and uses
- Appendix B - Visibility for crossing a priority cycle facility from a secondary road
- Appendix C - Consideration of mobile obstruction in overtaking visibility
- Appendix D - Application of extended portions in bends
- Appendix E - Configurations of horizontal alignment to be ruled out
- Appendix F - Specific junctions
Thematic bibliography
Glossary
