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Types of Gauges in railway is a mandatory topic to touch upon when you study railway engineering. In the blog, I will take you to a trip through the main types of gauges in railway which are broad gauge, metre gauge and narrow gauge. You will also see the major factors that affect the choice of gauges.
Types of rails are mainly divided into three. Double headed rails, bull headed rails and flat footed rails. You will come to know all the important details of each of them with figures in the blog. The advantages of flat footed rails are also vividly described.
Components of railway track are rail section, sleepers, ballast, rail fastenings and subgrade and embankments. I will walk you through each of them in detail. You will get to learn about the functions of rails, functions of sleepers, functions of ballast and about fastening of railway. The rail provide a hard, smooth and unchanging surface for the passage of heavy moving loads.
Alignment of road is very important during the road construction. We will sweep through what is highway alignment and then the requirements of highway alignment. Followed by that, I will walk you through factors affecting alignment of road. Then, I will describe obligatory points in depth with figures. In nutshell, l am going to make you savvy in the topic.
Road margins is an inevitable topic everyone should know who are into transportation engineering. We will see the different types of road margins, the details about the right of way on road and the formation width of road as per irc in the blog. I will also walk you through shoulder of the road being an important road margin.
Classification of roads can be done based on type of road surface, location, function, road traffic, type fo road pavement, weather and lanes. are the cheapest type of road and is used at the places where traffic is rare. The type of road surface used in these roads is soil. The pavement structure is totally made up of soil available at site
Major benefits, applications, disadvantages of intelligent transportation system along with figures that explains each of them are shown
Traffic signals in india- The importance of traffic signals and mechanism of signals, advantages of traffic signals 1. Provide orderly movement 2. Minimises the number of conflicting movements 3.Increase capacity 4. Interrupt heavy traffic to allow other traffic to enter or cross, Types of traffic signals, warrants for traffic signal
are also discussed in detail in the article.
