Road & traffic route construction

The generic term road and traffic route construction covers the area of civil engineering that deals with the planning, design, repair, maintenance and rehabilitation of infrastructure. As an important part of traffic route construction, road construction includes all aspects of the construction and operation of infrastructure for pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular traffic, from planning through to construction and rehabilitation. In road and traffic route construction projects, various functions may need to be performed, such as sealing, asphalt reinforcement, subsoil stabilisation, drainage, erosion control, filtering, steep slope reinforcement, base course reinforcement, and separation.

Road and traffic route construction is the largest area of application for geosynthetics. Non-woven fabrics, geogrids, woven geotextiles, sealing membranes and drainage mats are found in practically all construction projects involving roads and motorways.