Country	Designation	Scope (our words)	Status
India	IRC:119	Guidelines for traffic safety barriers.	current
India	IRC:35	Code of practice for road markings.	current
India	IRC:37	Guidelines for the design of flexible pavements.	current
India	IRC:67	Code of practice for road signs.	current
India	IRC:73	Geometric design standards for rural (non-urban) highways.	current
India	IRC:79	Recommended practice for road delineators.	current
India	IRC:86	Geometric design standards for urban roads.	current
India	IRC:SP:59	Guidelines for use of geosynthetics in road pavements and associated works.	current
India	IS 15462	Polymer and rubber modified bitumen.	current
India	IS 73	Paving bitumen: viscosity-graded (VG) specification.	current
USA	AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures (1993)	Empirical pavement design method based on road test data.	current
USA	AASHTO MASH	Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware: crash test procedures for roadside hardware.	current
Europe	EN 12591	Bitumen and bituminous binders: paving grade bitumens.	current
Europe	EN 1317 (series)	Road restraint systems: performance classes and impact test methods.	current
Australia	AS 1289 (series)	Methods of testing soils for engineering purposes.	current

Listed in a fixed country order; no standard is ranked above another. Scopes are our summaries. Buy the standards from the issuing body for exact text.

References and further reading

Standard texts, listed in no order of merit. We do not copy text, figures, tables or solved problems from any book; our explanations and examples are original.

S. K. Khanna, C. E. G. Justo, A. Veeraragavan, Highway Engineering, Nem Chand and Bros, latest edition.
F. L. Mannering, S. S. Washburn, Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, Wiley, latest edition.

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