How modern highways are built
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- Highways are some of the most important pieces of transportation infrastructure around the world. π§
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We Indians have 2 more pre steps before starting to build highways here.
Step -1 : Land acquisition
Step 0: Protest from locals
Then we follow other steps mentioned in this video π
Fake NGOππππ
Step 1 is not exclusive to india, in every country land acquisition is done
not locals only vested interest NGOs and now that their funding has been looked into, they are no longer a menace
NGO and 1000's of PIL in courts too
Fake ngosπ
Nepal be like: Wait! What? We don't construct like this way. We are too fast; just pour few inches of tars. DONE β
haha
Nope we use Asphalt these days
@@vijanbhandari1684 *we've barely started using
Inches lmao we use Centimetre
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We need to appreciate the efforts of our amazing architects and engineers who have gone to great lengths to build roads that are safe for us to use.
Third world countries: "You underestimate my level of corruption."
speak for your country please.. there are a lot of countries making monumental progress
@@lantherpagdi I visited Mexico for Halloween weekend. My entire body felt numb after a 10m taxi ride.
Actually we have been doing great
I think you should know that Switzerland is also a Third World Country. First know the meaning of words before using it.
@@sathvikpasumarthy I don't think so.
*A Third World country is an outdated and offensive term for a developing nation characterized by a population with low and middle incomes, and other socio-economic indicators.*
3 years in Engineering School explained in just over 6 minutes
Explained in 6 minutes. Years of building.
Not even close
No
This is a joke.
Seriously?
Seems like, engineers in our country just pour tar on a place and call it as road πΆπΆ
no offense, but we dont. thank you!
@@rh5301 Actually, this is more common than what it seems. For instance, I've studied old maps showing dirt paths and bridle roads, compared them with modern maps of the same areas and I'm able to match these paths to local paved roads. It's common for local roads in the countryside to arise from paving these old paths and then designating them as highways. Mind you, this is in the broad civil engineering sense (all engineered roads of higher hierarchy compared to a local street), not specifically the high capacity and free-flowing types (freeways/turnpikes/motorways/expressways).
As someone living in Poland, that absolutely was the case a few years back.
If a highway was built in 2005, it required serious repairs by 2007 and by 2010 it needed to be basically built from scratch...
Only recently did they start making roads that will actually last for more than 5 years, which would be funny if not for the fact that per kilometre the highways cost more in Poland- a country that's basically as flat as it gets in Europe- than in Norway.
Recently in India, 15 mile/25km Highway was built just under 24 hours and it came in the news.
Sources to verify?
@@NativeVsColonial i live by the highway & i had no idea about itπ. Yes they did. Most part 16 km was ring road (newly constructed), so not a single vehicle except construction equipment to bother ongoing work.
@Vk Tri What?
@@NativeVsColonial its true and actually just 18 hours for 25km of road
m.economictimes.com/news/economy/infrastructure/nhai-develops-single-lane-of-25-54-kms-road-in-record-time/articleshow/81253705.cms
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From what I get from the source, that was just the asphalting work. None of the surveying, designing or groundwork was factored in. They didn't build the road in under 24 hours, they put the tarmac on that road in under 24 hours.
Also from the source: ''It is not done end-to-end but they have done it in five different places at the same time."
Each team did 5.1km in 18 hours. or 283m per hour. Tbh, I'm not that impressed when we factor 360m to 600m per hour (depending on the thickness of the tarmac).
If it's not just the asphalting work and its the whole deal, yea. thats fast.
Algeria be like: we don't do that here π
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Lmao
Wish he would've explained the bridge part of a highway such as getting it started. That would be an awesome video in of itself though
Only 90s kinds know abt Bitumen in India now. Those concrete roads are durable but floods during heavy rain.
In India, bitumen roads are still being built, actually 100% use bitumen.
@@Student17625 not where I live. The small streets are concrete and tiles now.
@@mayur4699 that's corrupt local bodies because they can rip off a bigger amount from the same and say a big f u to road users who have to suffer the bumps and uneven tiles over time. Then they can rip it all off again and bleed even more money from taxpayers.
Thankfully the nhai is using bitumen
Still large percentage of the roads are built using bitumen. Concrete is used sparsely where I live
@@amalkallarackal9293 actually ppl here complained abt bitumen roads. They don't even last a year. So they replaced all the road with concrete. But Bcoz of that shops which are little below from road length started to flood.
One of the best engg channel in my subscription list good job keep it up
"They don't just consider the transportation problems of today but also think and plan out many decades into the future"
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I don't get it man and I'm Australian. Enlighten me haha.
Not in dominica they have all these procedures, they just bulldoze the road and pour asphalt..
What happen happens.
Indian highways are not built for generations. The flyovers fell during construction or just after inauguration & potholes start appearing after first rain.
I dont know where you live but, the highways i have travelled on are years old, and are in good shape! Maybe you should stop generalizing
Here in south india our infrastructure is world class
Damn if only my country does this, The road wouldn't look like Mars' surface.
I wish all these processes were used in my country as well..Nepal....here the highways are planned for incresing corruption and looting national budget!!βΉβΉβΉβΉ
Thats every country. Even in America but its mostly written of as wastage or increase in budget.
I live in Poland and our highways cost more per kilometre than in Norway, and you couldn't tell bc after 3 years they need extensive repairs and after 5 they need to be rebuilt bc they were built to suck money out of the budget, not to be actually good roads.
Only 3 years ago did they start making highways that'll actually last for more than 5 years...
@@edim108 in my country highway made in the 1970's(thats 50+years) is still running without any repairs...no but its not because it was well made it is just because their are such things like repairs...here the corrupted government runs whatever the condition
Some countries be like: No, highways are old...
We build the new design called bumpways
My country use the newest design called mudways
@@ronisetiawan3728 excellent
My country uses best design called seaways
In India we don't think about future,we just reduce the size of already small ones into much smaller ones .
We are not World Class in planning- Agreed But looking around your area you might find We are investing heavily in Highway Infra
Hmm thats why india is building 23 new expressways by 2025 and constructing 2 lane 30 kms of new highways every fucking day and existing roads :)
Lol
@@parthlm1073 I'm talking about my place ,not about some random highways in the north.
@@technodestination4763 I'm talking about my place ,not about random highways in the north.in my State Government reduced the size of the road during re taring citing lack of land.india is a congested and over crowded country,we can't expect good roads everywhere.
Not suprised that they ended this video by showing SOA ending scene Jax Teller π€π―
Amazing video gets an amazing ending...
In mumbai we just put tar on mud and call it a day
Lol
Also in Nepal bro...so sad
Why am I watching this? I'm a survey engineer, I already know this lol
As an Indian, I find this video is highly offensive. Road Drainage my ass ππ
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We just hope for a two lane road
We do have drainage system in our newly built expressways. To start with, we didn't had many expressways in the past apart from the Mumbai pune one. And our eastern and western expressways will be completed by 2040 or 2050, it takes time.
older highways are made with gradient and small ditch alongside roads so water can just washout towards the side ditch. But city roads do have dedicated storm water drainage system at least in my city where flooding was common in the past. Don't have much idea about the other cities.
In hyderabad India (TRS ruled) all roads are being upgraded with storm water drains and underground cable ducts under the strategic road development program. India under modi (BJP) rule is building a record number of expressways and infra projects since 5-6 years. You should educate yourself first before vomiting out your ignorance.
I really enjoyed this learning process. Please make a video on structural engineering home, commercial bldg and bridge construction ! Thank you
When you realize you live next to the widest highway in the entire world
RIP forestry, air quality, native wildlife with each new highway monstrosity built
Actually roads are built in such a way that the net carbon emission gets reduced and few places like India they are building elevated roads to save the wildlife and plants are replanted in other areas
do you still get around by riding horses through the jungle and forest?
Happy to see comments from all over the world
This is simply a great video. it's well explained and extremely vivid. Keep up the awesome job. Love you from Cambodia! Thanks.
You should check out Dutch motorways, they are SOOOO comfortable to drive on, always high quality everywhere!
Asphalt is better for roads because itβs far easier to recycle, it never sets, also the pan American highway will never be completed, due to a dense rainforest in Colombia and Venezuela
In India on newer roads, recycled plastic is also being used which not only make roads of better quality and lasts longer but also cut prices up to half
Thanks for making them, I love so much driving down the road in my car, listening to music on the radio!
You should make a song about that!
Nitin Gudkari laughs After Building National Highway At 40km/Day ππ
We haven't achieved 40km per day yet. Buy we were somewhere in the 30s before Corona.
Achieving 40km per day is the target this year.
@@DoctorDoom619 NHAI achived it but just for 1 day they are preparing for achieving that target daily That will be achieved at the end of this year
@@saniddhyanigam433 yeah i know. They also built 25km in 18 hours. This year they'll consistently do 40 per day.
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We really lack highways here in vietnam and we appreciate every highway built
Could you pls make a video about neuromorphic computing? I would so like to know more about
Can we all just give a big thanks to the people that build are roads and highways
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@@infraprojects3751 Good job
Bidding in Brazil is just about best price. Incredible.
The videos you make are so educational and very well explained... Engineering is the most amazing part of our lives
So useful information from this channel. Well done staff.πΊπ²
That's why I subscribed this Channel.π
wow, it was really great ... thanks
Plz continue making this type of video
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They must take an incredibly long time. I have new roads built around my area that are still just dirt roads being built into actual roads. I've lived here for about 9 months. They do make progress it's just really slow.
They work fast where they choose to work fast at
Nice video π... Keep up the great work !
Thanks for the support!
In my country (El Salvador) they were going to build a highway and were deciding if to use asphalt or concrete. Lifetime of the asphalt was 10 years, of concrete was 30. They went with concrete. It only lasted 6 years before the road was in a mess, broken, potholes, uneven, slabs broken in half. I don't know if to save (and steal money) they didn't add the appropriate ingredients to the concrete or what but it was a disaster. What a waste of national tax dollars.
*India* : The best i can offer is 2 lanes
I'm a Masters student in Transportation Engineering and I just loved the video
In the Philippines our highways are always brand new
Rubberized asphalt in PHoenix make the roads super smooth and quiet.
people in my country just put concrete blocks and boom jobs done
The process is same here in India too
Ur name doesn't look Indian. Maybe you're born accidentally for a british?
Great video!! I'm in love with this channel!
You forgot about road markings before opening to the public.
G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway has 50 lanes at one point. Yes, 50. Next to a toll ramps. If that counts that is, it's still part of the highway thou
Seriously amazing video :P
"planning for the future" , *india has left the chat*
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Duh, do better research of your country pal.
That was 10 years ago bro!!!!!
are you living under a rock?
they didn't do any of this when the Gunbarrel highway was built. 1350km of isolated desert track with heavy corrugations, sand, rock and floodplains.
Apparently, UA-cam knows that I'm designing a road for assignments
Well in my country road are made in one day and destroyed another day
Great video
I did not learn Civil engineering but I appreciate the content
Indonesia : 6 year constructed highway/tolls destroyed by rain ππ
The last step needs to be building them so they don't fall back apart
Also not included in the decision-making process how rich are the neighbourhood to build a highway through, how to divide a city along racial and income line. Mostly an ecological disaster for the future population to think about.
In my country, they just dig up the road and put down tar. 2 years later the road is filled with cracks and potholes
poor countries: Hold my embezzlement.
To be fair we don't have all the machinery
Indian Highway makers- Ooh what's that?? We dont do that here!!! We We make record for fastest construction of highway and It also gets worse as soon as it is built
I've never seen a concrete highway in my life but I do see concrete roads in the country
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very informative. great video
Isn't the Autobahn more like a freeway and not a highway?
"complex digital pointcloud"
Ahw thanks but it's not that complicated. All it represents are XYZ coordinates (more dots = more accurate but also slows down the PC) to make a digital surface model. A few clicks and software like Civil 3D (also shown in the video) sorts it all out. Besides a nice 3d model of the design, its helpful to calculate the amount of soil that will be displaced and it allows engineers to design a road in such a way that we minimize soil displacement to save money.
I don't know bout you but I love asphalt roads more than concretes. It's the black aesthetic for me
What are the machines used at 3:31, 3:35 & 3:36??
Your channel always comes up with Interesting things β€οΈ
This summer they are making 2 lanes into a 4 lane divided highway with turn lanes and frontage roads a few miles from here.I remember when there was hardly any traffic on that road.
"Canada, the US and 12 nations in Sotuh America" THAS IS WRONG!!! SOUTH AMERCIA STARTS IN COLOMBIA, NOT MEXICO. The Pan-American Highway crosses only 5 South American countries: Colombia, Ecuador, PerΓΊ, Chile and Argentina.
Yep, and the reason for the interruption at the Pan-american highway is the DariΓ©n gap, nobody will build there.
yep. It should be translated from so USian "US, Canada and barbarian countries" to "X North American countries and Y South American countries"
this is my everyday life !!! love it totally !!!!
5:29 Holy crap I did not know this. I live close to this freeway. Always has some sort of traffic on it but it's continuous.
Would love a step by step process of how a highway comes into being
From an idea to a finnished process
Well done!
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In Bulgaria we make highway more than 49 years
Really wanna do this but don't really know where to go
especially in slovakia :D 500 km in 30 years and stiil not finish :D
iam very glad to say that india made remarkable progress in highway construction in the last 10 years!!
we are building world's longest expressway of nearly 1400kms from DELHI TO MUMBAI.. open to traffic in mid 2023!
Thanks to our visionary transport minister NITIN GADKARI
I apreciate the construction of highway, but not the highway itself.
After seeing this I think many steps was skipped in India while making roads
Laos has built a new highway, which is quite nice in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
bro really forgot the pipe laying
In India we just re tar or do patch works which was built by Britain 100 years ago .
I think you ignored the new bharatmala and other road projects
Yeah no new roads have been built in India after independence. We're still how we were before 1947. /s
@@DoctorDoom619 so true.
@@brandonsmith546 i was being sarcastic
@Saurav Singh ha na bc log kuchh bhi bolte rahte internet pe cool ban ne ke liye
This year in India a NHAI made a world record by laying 2.6km of concrete on a 4 lane highway in 24hours.
not 2.6 bro its 22.6
@@sathvikpasumarthyAsphalt road was constructed for 22.6 km record.
I found this channel by accident. Best accident ever..π
Somehow I doubt that all these steps are taken in Mexican highways... however I would like to add that some steps are missing, for example: paying 10% of the construction cost to the official who selected your company to build the road lmao, oh well... we're fucked
Generally, both materials from Asphalt and cement...the difference is just in the binding material...
Interesting information.
this is how they do it in michigan and then do it again four years later because of two things one the law says the cheapest bid and second because of the freezing and thawing of the ground the asphalt just breaks up and the snow plows push it off the road into the gutter
Here in the Philippines, those people who are constructing roads and highways put concrete cement first then followed by asphalt. I don't know why they are doing that.
I'm no engineer. But from what I have heard from a local construction contractor in our city that asphalt used to prolong the life of the concrete underneath. The asphalt for sure will fade away first - potholes will inevitably appear but they're faster and easier to repair than highway grade concrete.
Think the workers in my hometown miss all those steps..
Romania: we don't do that here
So fucking true.
Less material is used than in the project because they save money from this.
The Katy Fwy is the widest yet traffic is still a massive headache π