Low-volume road engineering book

A new book by Robert A Douglas entitled Low-Volume Road Engineering provides a thorough insight into issues concerning design, construction and maintenance. The book contains a series of papers covering key issues for low-volume roads. This provides engineers with a useful source of information for designing, building and maintaining roads, many of which may be constructed in rural areas in developing nations. The information is well-suited to use by designers and contractors building infrastructure in deve
August 19, 2016 Read time: 1 min
A new book by Robert A Douglas entitled Low-Volume Road Engineering provides a thorough insight into issues concerning design, construction and maintenance. The book contains a series of papers covering key issues for low-volume roads. This provides engineers with a useful source of information for designing, building and maintaining roads, many of which may be constructed in rural areas in developing nations. The information is well-suited to use by designers and contractors building infrastructure in developing nations.

The book is published by CRC Press, part of the Taylor Francis Group based in Florida.

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