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    Geometric Design Criteria for Urban Streets Magdi M. E. Zumrawi ' Abstract The objective ofthis paper is to assist in establishing a guide to the geometric design of urban streets in Sudan, The design of new roads and enhancement of existing roads using a unified code of highway design applicable jn Sudan is quite important. The basic geometric design criteria inclide design speed, sight distances, and oad’s cross-sectional elements, horizontal and vertical alignments in addition to roads intersections. The use of specific design criteria at a particular location should be made on the basis of actual studies of the location, ‘The recommended values of geometric design criteria for urban streets are within the range of the desirable standards in most of the international highway design manuals. To check the validity of the suggested guidelines to suit Sudan, field work of three existing roads in Khartoum was carried out. The results obtained cleatly indicated that these guidelines are applicable in Sudan, a GoD Spee Sad GM pat Gl Sage baal SA ott pall dae} Aral Se ge iad panel Le pl Jas GAL patil peal) Cae os pal yy pn ain Nagel GB Abs Sey saya hd Mad La) State a SR Gp LD HAL AL, My NN oul « a hall atl gL aio « yy iL Ca pi GD yl pall Hota a Sl lof QB ld Cha le LEY Ge aN ne aha pa SES le cae sal La si ppl sn Sp HY ge ge Sl. al hl pga LA GY a Oa pe punta Bead AS y Lye i Can yy pI) dy le 1. Introduction ‘The term “Urban Street as defined by the terrain of the road area as level, rolling and AASHTO [1] refers to roadways in developed mountainous [1]. si areas that provide access to property and 2, Design factors traffic. Suburban Streets serve as tt ae res 2.1 Design speed between low-speed urban streets and high- ee eal Nigiorene Design speed is a selected speed used to ; determine the various geometric design Geometric Design for highways includes the features of the roadway. Design elements such design of cross seetion elements, horizontal : 9 s < as sight distances, vertical and horizontal and vertical ali ents and int i The ie senso alignments, lane and shoulder widths, requirements for design analysis are the road ‘ ‘ F ee superelevation, ctc., are influenced by design tional classi tions as arterial, mr an en PONTEME., gies adebsitiend tieeditinecomnettie and access roads, the traffie volume that may design depends on road functional classifica be expressed in terms of average daily traffic tion [2] as indicated in Table (1). (ADT) or design hourly volume (DHV) and 1. Assistant Prof., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Khartoum ‘Table (1); The Design Speed Criteria ‘Table (2): The Design Sight Distances for Urban Streets FUNCTIONAL DESIGN SPEED steal | aiaiag ; CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA. Design sight sight pens Freeway /Expressway | Should not be less than a eiisemnes: | dlecanes: eae ; 80 km/h (ssb)"* Gm) | PSD)? Gm) “Arterial Range from 50 10 100 wi 30 35 200 75 Collector Minimum 50 lanih, 40 50 270 lis Toeal Range from 30 to 50 za S 3s 155 kwh, 0 85 410 195 2.2 Sight distances 7 105 485, 238, Sight distance is the length of roadway ahead 30 30 40 280 that is visible to the driver. For design three a a aa =a main types of sight distances are considered: stopping, passing and decision. 100 185 60 370 110 220 730 20 Stopping sight distance (SSD) is the sum of the italia aobedites, disinmceee meets Peasy 10 280, ms 470 distance. In computing SSD, the height of the 130 285 ais 525 river's eye is estimated; AASHTO [1] to be * Ssp = 0.278 v- + 0.039 , where: v: 1.08m and the height of the object to be seen by the driver is 0.6m, equivalent to the taillight height of the passenger car. Passing sight distance (PSD) is the minimum sight distance required for. the driver of one vehicle to pass another vehicle safely and comfortably. PSD is applicable only in the design of two-lane roadways. The PSD is the suum of 4 (initial passing vehicle distance), ds (delay vehicle distance), dy (safety distance) and g; and crests otherwise. based on an assumed headlight height (hy) = 0.6 m and en upward divergence of the headlight beam of 1°. The minimum length of sag vertical curves, the formula is Also}. Foie 5005, + SD tan B) (for SD

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