Introduction

• Road construction is very costly infrastructure to build and maintain
• Today a six lane expressway may cost Rupees 5 to 10 crores per killometer

• Need for cost reduction and performance enhancement by way of
  • new road materials
  • innovative applications of the existing/ new road materials
    
• Depletion of natural resources has forced us to look into industrial and natural waste as an alternate to road construction. This may also help in reducing environmental pollution

The discussion in this document has been placed under TWO MAIN SECTIONS,

• Emerging road materials
• Innovative application of road materials