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A highway drainage system controls water both above and beneath the roadway to maintain the integrity of the road. A drainage system intercepts and diverts water from the road surface and allows it to safely dissipate. Without the proper drainage system, any road surface would become flooded and would eventually fail as the supporting sub-grade […]
The construction of the modern highway is achieved through a detailed survey process and significant sub-grade preparation. The methods used for designing and constructing roadways have become more and more sophisticated over time. Skill levels vary from project to project and depend on factors such as new construction versus reconstruction and urban versus rural projects. […]
Highway planning and development is an intricate, highly involved process during which must take a number of factors into consideration during the creation of a plan for new roadways. One of the most important aspects to be considered is the impact that any new development will have on the environment. This must be studied and […]
Canada has a diverse range of power sources, in fact, they have every type of energy imaginable but the threat of global warming and climate change crisis has the citizens demanding for a more clean and sustainable source of energy in the long run. Electricity generation produces 80 million of greenhouse gas emissions in 2015 while […]
Farmers need land to grow their crops to be used as food or ethanol. The growing demand for ethanol has caused some farmers and commercial agriculture companies to clear out more land for their crops. Clearing out more land for biofuel production could lead to a deforesting problem that wasn’t foreseen. An increasing demand for […]
When highway planning, development and construction requires funding, where does it come from? Fuel taxes are most often part of the revenue used. State highway revenues do not do well when generated by “general” taxes such as income tax, property tax, or other forms of “regular” funding. This is predominantly because these types of funding […]
The biggest challenge road transportation is the road crashes. Road transportation has the highest number of accidents. While some of these accidents can lead to permanent injuries, others lead to death. The most painful aspect is that over 90 percent of these crashes are avoidable and they are caused by human error. Over 30,000 people […]
Even though the techniques for constructing highways have kept evolving because of technology advancement and the complexity of the highway, one thing has remained unchanged. Before any highway construction, there should a well taken survey and a good subgrade preparation. In highway construction, there is always a big difference in highway construction between urban areas […]
Plastic invented in the ’30s is now one of the most useful commodities on the planet but it’s also has become one of the greatest problems to our environment. It was in the ’70s when the pollution of plastic had been reported through scientific research and back then it was determined that 0.1% would wind […]
The Boreal forest which is also referred to as Taiga counts for around 30% of the earth’s forests which covers three continents in the northern part of the globe. It’s the largest forest on the planet but these amazing woodlands are also facing various serious threats that are causing a decline in their populace. Canada produces […]