Highway Engineering

Subject Code – CE 6504

 Topics

Session Topics to be covered Time Ref Teaching Method

No
05 Road Patterns 50 min 1, 2 PPT
 Road Patterns
The various road patterns may be classified as:

•Rectangular or Block pattern

•Radial or star and block pattern

•Radial or star and circular pattern

•Radial or star and grid pattern

•Hexagonal pattern

•Minimum travel pattern

Rectangular or block pattern
Junction

Main road
Central
Business Area
Radial or star & block pattern

Radial roads

Central
Business Area

Built-up area

Rectangular
pattern
 Radial or star & Circular pattern

Central
Ring road
Business Area

Radial road
 Radial or star & Grid pattern

Grid

Central
Business Area

Radial road
Hexagonal pattern
The choice of the pattern very much depends on the

locality, the layout of different towns, villages, industrial

and production centres and on the choice of the planning

engineer. The rectangular or the block pattern has been

adopted in the city roads of Chandigarh. But from traffic

operation point this is not considered convenient. An

example of radial and circular pattern is the road network

of Connaught Place in New Delhi. The Nagpur road plan

formulae were prepared assuming Star and Grid Pattern.