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Classification Of Roads

Hugh Burt Chief Construction Manager, Roads L-3 Global Security and Engineering Solutions Homeland Security - SBInet, Infrastructure and Engineering

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Functional Classification (FC) 1 An FC 1 facility is any type of surface paved road. These roads may include surfaces consisting of bituminous asphalt and aggregate, hot-mix asphaltic concrete, porcine cement concrete or some combination of these types of improved surface courses; generally overlaying an aggregate base course of varying depths.

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Functional Classification (FC) 2 An FC 2 facility is an all-weather road. These roads generally consist of 6 minimum depth well-graded aggregate (may be native or imported )roadbeds, shaped with a defined crown section and including adequate parallel ditches and cross-culverts to ensure proper drainage both parallel and transverse to the road alignment. These roads should allow travel even during inclement weather, with service disruption only in the case of severe localized flooding of the road.

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Functional Classification (FC) 3 An FC 3 facility is a graded earth road. These roads should generally consist of a defined crown section and parallel ditches, similar to the FC 2 roads. However, the graded earth roadbed will consist of shaped and compacted in-situ materials of varying depth. These roads will be more susceptible to service disruption during storms of only moderate severity. Wet weather traction may also be compromised in areas with clayey or silky soils.

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Functional Classification (FC) 4 An FC 4 facility is a two-track road. These facilities may also be described as un-improved roads, wagon trails, or 4-wheel drive roads. The two track name implies that the road consists of two parallel tracks created by the loss of vegetation where the tires contact and compact the earth; between which may lay a strip of low-growth vegetation. These roads receive very little maintenance consisting primarily of occasional brush and boulder clearing, and possibly but much less frequently box-blading. Two-track roads have no crown, and generally do not have any improved drainage features or ditches.

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