Accidents considered as major hazard for any highway section. Highway safety can be improved with geometric features such as increasing lane width, improved horizontal and vertical curves, designated U-Turn and vehicle ...

Over the past decades, the road construction with hot mix asphalt (HMA) has been increased significantly. However there were many concerns of the durability of the recently constructed asphalt concrete roads. Therefore, ...

Walking is considered as a most efficient mode of transport for shorter distances as it is environmentally friendly, requires minimal energy, costs nothing and is accessible to all irrespective of the age, gender and ability ...

A9 (Kandy-Jaffna Highway) is the most popular road in Sri Lanka, and was opened for traffic after the renovation of the section from Vavuniya to Jaffna, in 2013. Even though several safety precautions have been provided, ...

Pavement design procedures used in road design is either empirical or mechanistic. In Sri-Lanka most of the road pavements have been designed based on the empirical design methodologies. A guide to the structural design ...

Transportation has become a major component in a countries’ development. Improvement of public transportation along with their infrastructure is a timely need to address its demand. The comfort, safety, and attractiveness ...

The increase in the usage of private transport modes for school trips has become a major reason for traffic congestion in Colombo District during peak hours. Colombo District consists of 402 functioning government schools, ...

Pedestrian crossing is one of the places where pedestrians and vehicles interact each other. This interaction often causes delays to both pedestrians and vehicles and increase possibility of accidents between vehicle-pedestrian ...

The objective of this research is to identify the applicability of Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)to determine the Level of service in urban minor arterial roads in Sri Lanka. HCM has been developed by the transport research ...

The significance of quality control and quality assurance at the compaction operation in the asphalt pavement has long been recognized by the industry since the compaction maintains the volume of air in the asphalt, which ...