Abstract
In developing countries, lack of trafficability of the rural roads has been identified as one of the main causes of the poverty of the rural people. To keep the accessibility of all-weather roads in the rural area, in this study a new method to maintain the unpaved rural access road with “do-nou (soil bag)” is being developed. This method is labor based technology and requires the bags and material put inside the bag, which are readily available to the people in developing countries. Through the tensile strength tests and full size model driving tests, their applicabilities to the road structure were ascertained and the appropriate road structure maintained by the do-nou was proposed.
