Pavement Design Catalogue - LGED

Local Government Engineering Department
Local Government Engineering Department is Prime engineering Department in
perusing rural development programme. LGED’s main functions are to provide technical
support to the Local Government Institutes, Planning and Implementation of
Infrastructure Development Projects in Rural and Urban Areas to improve
communication/transport network, employment generation and poverty reduction
Reflecting strong initiatives of Government for pursuing rural prosperity, the total volume
of investment program into rural infrastructure has been continuously increasing. In
addition to such quantitative aspect, the better and reliable quality of development rural
infrastructures is requested to meet the social demand for efficient performance of public
investment, LGED has been playing key role for rural infrastructure development with
high performance and flexibility on each project component.
LGED ROADS
LGED is entrusted with construction and improvement of three types of Rural Roads as
under: -
Upazila Road
Union Road
Village Road
Roads connecting Upazila HQ/s with Growth Center/s or one
Growth Center with another Growth Center by a single main
connection or connecting Growth Center to Higher Road system,
through shortest distance/ route.
Roads connecting Union HQ/s with Upazila HQ/s, growth centers or
local markets or with each other.
a) Roads connecting villages with Union HQ/s, local markets,
farms and ghats or with each other.
b) Road within a village.
THE PAVEMENT DESIGN CATALOGUE
The Pavement Design Catalogue contains pavement cross-sections of Upazila Roads
with initial traffic of 500, 300 and 200 commercial vehicle (10.2 ton) and Union Roads
with initial traffic of 300, 200 and 100 commercial vehicle (10.2 ton).
This Pavement Design Catalogue also contains sample suggestion for shoulder
treatment when roads passing through built-up or market areas.
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