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Highway Alignment Types

Highways are crucial for a nation as they enhance transport systems, reduce costs, and improve productivity. They facilitate reliable transportation schedules, promote social growth, and encourage business travel by reducing travel time. Highway alignment, which includes horizontal and vertical aspects, is essential in planning and designing highways.

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Highway Alignment Types

Highways are crucial for a nation as they enhance transport systems, reduce costs, and improve productivity. They facilitate reliable transportation schedules, promote social growth, and encourage business travel by reducing travel time. Highway alignment, which includes horizontal and vertical aspects, is essential in planning and designing highways.

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IMPORTANCE OF HIGHWAY

This and many other reasons explain why highways are important to a nation. However,
below are the benefits of highways:

1. Good transport infrastructure, like highway network enhances transport system that
reduces transportation costs and this, in turn, definitely reduces the production costs
while it increases productivity and profitability of organizations.

2. Highway network also makes transportation schedules and deliveries more reliable
and timelier.

3. Highways also contribute immensely to social growth; relatives are able to visit their
loved ones more often and it enhances good relationship between family and friends.

4. Highways can relatively reduce travel time to villages, cities and towns thereby
encourage people to travel for business and trade.

5. Highways make journeys faster, comfortable and safer than usual while at the same
time reduce fuel consumption.

What is Highway Alignment?

The position of the central line of the highway or the layout of the planned highway line
on the ground is called Highway Alignment.
Highway Alignment is generally phrased as two types on Highway plans

Horizontal Alignment:
This covers the horizontal path of the road either it’s straight or curved or both. Top view
of road alignment gives horizontal alignment of the road.

Vertical Alignment:

This deals with the gradients, slopes and levelling of the ground.
Perspective view or front view or side view of the road alignment makes you understand
about Vertical alignment.

Highway Alignment and Factors controlling the Highway Alignment

In this post, we are discussing the Importance of Highway Alignment and various
factors which are needed to be considered in planning the highway alignment.

The Terms which we discuss here are the most important and usually come across in
highway designing and planning. As a civil engineer, you must be aware of these terms.

Once the plan of road construction is decided, the next step to work on is the highway
alignment.

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