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Excerpt from Rural Highway Pavements, Maintenance and Reconstruction: A Discussion of General Principles Illustrated by Current and Recommended Practice This book is the second of a series of volumes presenting the road problem from the standpoint of the constructing engineer. It completes the text book portion of the series. This volume contains basic data ordinarily used in the design, construction, maintenance and reconstruction of rural highways. The object of this book is to emphasize and illustrate the application of well recognized engineering principles which have been more or less befogged by non-technical propaganda. The method adopted includes development of tentative theory illustrated by typical reports covering the usual problems. Specific examples of actual practice are given throughout the text showing that if advantage is taken of the technical knowledge of engineers in connection with design and type selection, the mileage of programs can often be increased at least 10 per cent over what is actually obtained under a system of rigidly standardized and stereotyped design. Furthermore if legislatures will have foresight enough to follow engineering advice in raising funds for maintenance and renewal the total final cost of the road systems can be reduced at least 20 per cent below the usual reported costs. The main value of this book probably lies in its definite design data, its discussions of the suitability of different pavements considering maintenance, renewal and motor vehicle operating costs, and in the selected official reports which apply the general principles of design to specific cases. Acknowledgement is made of the courteous cooperation of highway departments, material industries and individual engineers and authors in furnishing data for this manuscript. I wish particularly to acknowledge the constructive criticism of G. G. Miller, H. G. Hotchkiss, C. M. Edwards and Herbert Michaels. Readers are to suggest additions or corrections which will make the book more useful to highway engineers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.