Not quite sure where to post this, but since it's mentioned in the treaty and relevant, I'll post it here.
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The Autostrada Project[/SIZE]
Map linked due to size
These routes represent the initial commitment of Warsaw Pact member states through 1950. Dashed lines indicate possible expansions, including possible international connections. These roads represent only the international network, and nothing prohibits a country from building its own internal highways.
Note: Atlantis, Byzantium, and Turkey will be bridging the Bosporus as part of this effort. Until the completion of that bridge, ferries will be used.
Part One. Introduction
- A. The Committee of Engineers shall be composed of engineers appointed by the member states to oversee design standards and methodology. This committee shall select a chief engineer from their number to oversee the various areas of work.
- B. The Committee of Engineers will be responsible for approving design exceptions, approving final routes, and overseeing the work of the regional/national engineers.
- C. The regional/national engineers shall be responsible for sections of motorway construction up to and including the national level. The regional/national engineers shall maintain correspondence with the Committee of Engineers and with each other, and meet on a quarterly basis to work out problems and suggest alternate solutions and methodology.
- D. The Committee of Engineers shall hire persons as appropriate to oversee signage, maintenance, surveying, entrances and exits, and other positions as might be deemed appropriate and necessary. The Committee shall likewise select an administrator to track and publish all plans, requirements and specifications, and distribute them as necessary to construction contractors.
Part Two. Survey and Geotechnical
- A. The Committee of Engineers shall appoint a Chief Surveyor and Geotechnic Engineer to oversee work.
- B. The Chief Surveyor and his staff will be responsible for gathering survey data collected by the national surveying agencies. The Chief Surveyor and his staff will survey all prospective routes and report back to the Committee of Engineers with suggestions about the suitability of prospective routes.
- C. The Chief Surveyor and his staff will be responsible for placing survey pins to mark control points. Survey pins will be made of magnetic iron and shall be placed with no less than a one-centimeter margin of error.
- D. The Chief Surveyor and his staff will be responsible for maintaining As-Built maps of the motorway system, and work with cartographers to prepare road maps for motorists.
- E. The Geotechnical Engineer and his staff will be responsible for evaluating the suitability of soils along the planned routes, drilling routes to evaluate soil composition, sinkage and compaction potentials, and the level of the water table.
- F. The Geotechnical Engineer and his staff will provide data to the regional/national engineers with recommendations as to proper materials and embedment choices for the planned routes.
Part Three. Design
- A. Minimum lane width shall be four meters. Narrower lanes shall require a Design Exception, available from the Committee of Engineers. A minimum of two paved meters meters and two unpaved meters shall be provided on both sides of the motorway for emergency vehicles.
- B. Width between carriageways shall be a standard twenty-five meters in order to allow adequate room for expansion and emergency lanes. If the width drops below eighteen meters, the lanes shall be divided by a concrete barrier of adequate weight, height, and construction to prevent vehicles from crossing into oncoming lanes of traffic.
- C. Design speed for the carriageway is to permit speeds of no less than 100km per hour in urban areas, and speeds of no less than 130km per hour in rural areas.
- D. Design shall seek to eliminate unnecessary gradiants wherever possible. Maximum grades in rural flat terrain shall be limited to 3%. In rural rolling terrain, grades shall be limited to 4%. In rural mountainous terrain, grades shall be limited to 5%. Where applicable, runaway safety ramps shall be constructed, as deemed necessary by the Committee of Engineers.
- E. Every five kilometers, a one and a half kilometer-long section of uncurved carriageway shall be maintained for national defense requirements.
- F. The regional/national engineer will evaluate the appropriate materials necessary for construction of the embedment and the motorway. Care should be taken to determine economically-effective materials capable of withstanding heavy and repeated vehicle traffic, according to the determination of the Committee of Engineers.
Part Four. Drainage
- A. The road surface shall rise in the center of the paved road to permit rainfall to run off. Slope shall not exceed 2%.
- B. Drainage ditches shall be maintained in all areas to channel water away from the road surface and into natural drainage basins. Drainage ditches may be routed under the roadway if necessary using corrugated metal pipe or concrete cast pipe of an appropriate size necessary to carry the flow of a hundred-year rainstorm.
- C. Side-slopes on the motorway shall be no steeper than 1:6.
Part Five. Bridges
- A. Bridges shall be designed, if possible, to carry the separated carriageways across obstructions without altering the course of travel. In order to permit reconstruction and maintenance projects, two parallel bridges are preferred to a single bridge.
- B. Bridges shall be designed to permit the passage of heavy or superheavy vehicles up to and exceeding seventy tons without need for modifications.
- C. Roads passing over the motorway shall retain a clearance of no less than 5.5 meters. Roads passing under the motorway shall retain a clearance as appropriate for that class of road. Clearance over navigable waterways shall be evaluated according to the type of traffic moving on that waterway, and shall be sized according to the recommendations of the chief engineers.
Part Six. Signage
- A. Uniform signage shall be used across the extent of the motorway system, according to designs prepared by the Chief of Signage and approved by the Committee of Engineers.
- B. Signs shall be placed a minimum of thirty meters apart from each other to permit time for motorists to read and understand the signs.
- C. Signs shall be visible and readily identifiable at no less than two hundred meters.
- D. Signage shall be constructed with high-visibility materials to permit recognition in darkness or inclement weather conditions.
- E. Signs shall be manufactured using the language and alphabet appropriate to the country.
- F. Each country will maintain at the border stations a kiosk containing a map of the motorway system, a summary of applicable motoring laws (if any), and a guide to understand any special signs in the country.
- G. All distance signs shall be marked in meters and kilometers.
- H. Distance markers shall be placed every kilometer.
- I. Standardized signs will include (but not be limited to) the following: maximum and minimum speed limits (if applicable),
Part Seven. Maintenance
- A. Ground cover composed of native grasses shall be grown in medians, drainage ditches, and other unpaved areas as slope protection. No undergrowth shall be permitted to exceed twenty-five centimeters in height, and woody plants shall be removed from the safety zone of the motorway.
- B. Cracks, potholes, and other obstacles which disturb the flow of traffic shall be filled if possible. If filling is not possible, sections should be cut out and relaid with fresh cement.
- C. Stated design lifetime shall be at least twenty years, with resurfacing to be carried out at intervals judged necessary by the regional/national engineers, who are responsible for evaluating maintenance patterns.