- •Министерство образования республики беларусь
- •К сборнику прилагается тематический словарь основных понятий, необходимых при работе над переводом текстов.
- •History
- •Driving on the Right or on the Left
- •Construction
- •Maintenance
- •Unit 2 Sweet Track
- •Unit 3 Roman Road
- •Types of Roads
- •Milestones
- •Way Stations
- •Vehicles
- •The itinerary
- •Construction of a Road
- •Financing
- •Unit 4 Roman Roads in Britain
- •Unit 5 Silk Road
- •Origin: Cross-continental Travel
- •Ancient Transport
- •Egyptian Maritime Trade
- •Persian Royal Road
- •Hellenistic Conquests
- •The Roman Empire and Silk
- •Central Asian Commercial & Cultural Exchanges
- •Mongol Era
- •The Great Explorers: Europe Reaching for Asia
- •Unit 6 Royal Road
- •Course of the Royal Road
- •History of the Royal Road
- •Unit 7 Inca Road System
- •Main Routes
- •Inca Rope Bridges
- •Renewing the Last Bridge
- •Unit 8 Types of Road
- •Definition
- •Medium Capacity
- •High Capacity Restricted Access Roads
- •United Kingdom
- •United States Freeways
- •Expressways
- •Unit 9 Highway
- •Nomenclature
- •Social and Environmental Effects
- •Unit 10 Motorway
- •Regulations and Features
- •Common Criteria
- •Speed Limits
- •Lane Usage
- •Junctions
- •Location and Construction
- •Unit 11 Freeway
- •General Characteristics
- •Effects and Controversy
- •History
- •Recent Developments
- •Unit 12 Autobahn
- •Construction
- •History
- •Current Density
- •Speed limits
- •Traffic laws and enforcement
- •Unit 13 Causeway
- •Derivation of the word
- •Engineering
- •Examples of Use
- •Precautions in Use
- •Unit 14 Street
- •Role in the Built Environment
- •Circulation
- •Vehicular Traffic
- •Parking for Vehicles
- •Pedestrian Traffic and Vehicular Amenities
- •Identity
- •Nomenclature
- •Unit 15 Trail
- •Walking Trails
- •Bicycle Trails
- •Equestrian Trails
- •Trail Construction
- •Trails on Slopes
- •Drainage
- •Multi-use Trails
- •The Trackways
- •Settlements
- •Wallingford
- •Brownhills
- •Cadbury Castle and South Cadbury Village
- •Unit 17 Pavement (material)
- •Metalling
- •Asphalt paving
- •Concrete Paving
- •Bituminous Surface Treatment (bst)
- •Other Paving Methods
- •Unit 18 Traffic Sign
- •History
- •Vocabulary
Bituminous Surface Treatment (bst)
Bituminous Surface Treatment (BST) is used mainly on low-traffic roads, but also as a sealing coat to rejuvenate an asphalt concrete pavement. It generally consists of aggregate spread over sprayed-on asphalt emulsion or cut-back asphalt cement. The aggregate is then embedded into the asphalt by rolling it, typically with a rubber-tired roller. BSTs of this type are described by a wide variety of regional terms including “chip seal”, “tar and chip” and “seal coat”.
Other types of BSTs include micropaving, slurry seals and Novachip. These are laid down using specialized and proprietary equipment. They are most often used in urban areas where the roughness and loose stone associated with chip seals is considered undesirable.
Other Paving Methods
Cobbles
Pavers, generally in the form of pre-cast concrete blocks, are often used for aesthetic purposes, or sometimes at port facilities that see long-duration pavement loading. Pavers are rarely used in areas that see high-speed vehicle traffic.
Brick, cobblestone and wood plank pavements were once common in urban areas throughout the world, but due to their high manual labor requirements they are in some countries typically only maintained for historical reasons, while in other countries they are still common in local streets. They make maintenance of cabling and pipelines under the pavement easier but are also harder to walk on.
Likewise, macadam and tarmac pavements can still sometimes be found buried underneath asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete pavements, but are rarely constructed anymore.
As pavement systems primarily fail due to fatigue (in a manner similar to metals), the damage done to pavement increases exponentially with the axle load of the vehicles traveling on it. Civil engineers consider truck axle load, current and projected truck traffic volume, supporting soil properties and sub-grade drainage in design. Passenger cars are considered to have no practical effect on a pavement’s service life.
Several pavement design methods have been developed to determine the thickness and composition of pavement required to carry predicted traffic loads for a given period of time. Pavement design methods are continuously evolving.
According to some road tests, heavily loaded trucks can do more than 10,000 times the damage done by a normal passenger car. Tax rates for trucks are higher than those for cars in most countries for this reason, though are not levied in proportion to the damage done.
Unit 18 Traffic Sign
Most countries post signage, known as traffic signs or road signs, at the side of roads to impart information to road users. Since language differences can create barriers to understanding, international signs using symbols in place of words have been developed in Europe and adopted in most countries and areas of the world. The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of November 8, 1968 defines eight categories of signs:
A. Danger warning signs
B. Priority signs
C. Prohibitory or restrictive signs
D. Mandatory signs
E. Special regulation signs
F. Information, facilities, or service signs
G. Direction, position, or indication signs
H. Additional panels
However, countries and areas categorise road signs in different ways.