By: Dr. Allen W. Hatheway

Dr. Allen W. Hatheway — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:40:23 +0000

Gordon Keller has lived with design, construction, maintenance and restoration of low-volume roads (LVR) for thirty years (or more!) in the rugged mountain-forest regime of northern California … and through his specialty has become an American ambassador of LVR engineering around the world.
Gordon’s ten-part organization for his LVR COLLECTION, as listed above, constitutes a thorough introduction to the entire subject. I am struck by the fact that LVR are more dependent on geologic conditions that perhaps the most sturdy of the world’s major transportation routes, the Interstates, the Autopistas, Autobahns and the M-Roads; all of which are massive ribbons of portland cement concrete and asphaltic concrete, whereas LVRs are made nearly entirely of earth materials available along the route and are subject to the whims of nature to a great degree, largely because these roads are fragile in terms of the elements and of their superimposed traffic.
We welcome the LVR COLLECTION as a viable demonstration of the need for competent geologic input in this segment of TRANSPORTATION facilities.
Allen W. Hatheway
Curator-in-Chief
21October, 2010

Comments on: Low-Volume Roads

By: Dr. Allen W. Hatheway