Road Hierarchy
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Faculty of Engineering
Civil School
Subject: Hierarchical organization of roads or urban pathways
5th Parallel Level 2
Subject: Road Design
Instructor: Eng. Marcos Jácome
Cristhian Escalante
09/04/2018
Introduction
The Road Hierarchy is the ordering of roads, in levels of
Hierarchy, properly grouped. Their classification occurs through various
criteria: According to operational need or functionality (national or
primaries, departmental or secondary, and municipal or tertiary,
according to the topography (flat, undulating, mountainous lands and
steep), according to their characteristics (highways, multi-lane or two
directions) and, depending on the width of the road (narrow, medium, or wide).
Objectives
Learn the definition of the term road hierarchy
Analyze and study road hierarchy and its types
Successfully differentiate urban road hierarchy
like that of roads
Theoretical Framework
The road hierarchy can be classified in the following ways:
Functionality
Primary Veins Vp
Secondary Roads Vs
Tertiary Vias Vt
Topography
Flat Land
Wavy Land
Undulating Land
Rugged Terrain
Characteristics
Ap Highway
Multilane Road MC
Two-way road CC
Track width
Narrow E
oMedias M
Anchas A
ROAD HIERARCHY OF HIGHWAYS
Classification by Functionality
Primaries (also known as national ones)
They communicate the main centers of production and consumption.
(generally departmental capitals) of the Country and this with the others
countries.
According to traffic requirements, primary roads may have
separate lanes or not, that is to say, being multi-lane
The primary roads must be paved.
The trunk and transverse roads correspond to primary routes.
Secondary (or departmental)
They connect municipal capitals with each other, or connect them to roads
primaries.
Secondary roads can be paved or unpaved.
(surface treatments are usually a good compromise between
economy and functionality for these roads.
Tertiaries (or ward-based)
They connect the pathways with the municipal headwaters, or pathways with each other.
If they are paved, they must meet the geometric characteristics of the
secondary roads.
ROAD HIERARCHIZATION OF HIGHWAYS
Classification according to Topography
ROAD HIERARCHY OF HIGHWAYS
Classification by Characteristics
Highways
The different circulation directions must be arranged in
separate roadways, and each must have at least two lanes.
Highways must be designed to support high traffic circulation.
speed (greater than 80 km/h).
Multilanes
Each traffic lane must have at least two lanes, without
embargo, it is not necessary for them to be on separate lanes.
Two lanes, two directions
A single roadway with two lanes, one for each direction of traffic.
HIERARCHIZATION OF URBAN ROADS
The functional classification of an urban road network reports functions that
the section of road fits within the road network. The urban roads are
classified into four hierarchized and related matrices
functional due to the intersections generated between them.
Main artery: Connect commercial and/or industrial complexes of
urban impact (of roads and/or four lanes in each direction as
minimum) host intense traffic flows.
Secondary artery: Generally one lane in each direction, they allow
a high percentage of conventional public transport vehicles of
passengers, with low operating speed and high turnover of their
demand.
Collector Road: It is the set of urban roads that originates from the streets
secondary arteries distribute traffic within the different areas
that make up the city, that is, they allow direct accessibility to
residential, institutional, commercial, industrial, and
recreational.
Local roads: Their main function is direct access to buildings and
individual properties, starting from the collector roads, and with marked
exceptions, of the arterial routes.
Bibliography
•Construdata Website:
http://www.construdata.com/Bc/Otros/Newsletter/construction_activities
a_routes_and_highways.asp?Id_Task=_IDTASK_&Email={{EMAIL}
Lead to the Future (Types of roads in Colombia)
Web pageb: http://autozuniga.com/educational-documents/types-of-
roads-in-colombia/
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