KOTI - Korea Transport institute

Roads can be divided into urban roads and rural roads depending on their geometry and utilization characteristics. Roads should be designed to meet their characteristics to improve traffic safety and efficiency. However, when designing urban roads and rural roads, engineers use the ’Regulations for the Standards of the Structure and Facilities of Roads’ regardless of the characteristics of the road. Most of these standards are not suitable for urban road design because the regulation provides design specifications that reflect the characteristics of rural roads. This problem has been constantly raised, and there has been an attempt to develop design guidelines for urban roads. However, there are no guidelines for designing urban roads so far, and still use the ’Regulations for the Standards of the Structure and Facilities of Roads’. In addition, the problem is more serious for collector roads and distributor roads, which have “community road” characteristics rather than roads that focus on the mobility of vehicles, such as arterial roads and sub-arterial roads. In this study, A “community road” in an urban area is defined, and the design standards that are ambiguous or unfavorable when applied to the ’Regulations for the Standards of the Structure and Facilities of Roads’ for urban roads are reviewed and improved.