The width of the Right of Way (RoW) in India, as per the Indian Road Congress (IRC) guidelines, can vary depending on the type of road and its location. For example:
1. For a National Highway (NH), the recommended RoW width is typically 60 meters, which may vary in certain cases based on specific conditions.
2. For State Highways, the recommended RoW width can vary from 30 meters to 45 meters, depending on factors like traffic volume and terrain.
3. For urban roads, the RoW width can vary widely based on the urban planning and development policies of specific cities and states.
There is several kinds of Road in world constructed by central and state government in urban and rural areas, such as National Highway (NH), state highway (SH), MDR (major district road), ODR (other District road) and village road (VR). It will be constructed in plain or mountainous steep & hilly area. Generally National Highway constructed by Central Government of consists of 2 Lane, 3 Lane, 4 lane and 6 Lane Road. State highway, MDR, ODR and village road constructed by State Government consist of single lane, 2 Lane, 3 Lane and 4 lane road.
In india Road construction department have set up Indian Road Congress (IRC). The Indian Roads Congress (IRC) is the Apex Body of Highway Engineers in the country give the guidelines, rule and regulation of several kinds of roads contraction. It is updated several times with new guidelines. In India, all matters related to Geometric design and structure are handle according to to IRC (Indian Road Congress).
The main component of the highway or Expressway are right of way, roadway width, shoulder, road margin, traffic separator and kerbs. The area of the land that required for the road along its alignment is termed as right of way (RoW).
The right of way is the total land area acquired for the construction of roadway along its alignment. Width of right of way should be enough to accommodate all the elements of road cross section in highway and may generally provide to future development or future extension. In short form right-of-way is also written as RoW.
Width of right of way (RoW) is the area of land acquired for width of formation or roadways + other necessities + future extension along its alignment. Width of formation depends on category of Highway and width of roadway and Road margin. The importance of Reserve land in emphasized by extra width of land is available for the construction of Roadside facilities, land acquisition is India is too difficult later because the land may be occupied by the various other purpose building business etc.
Width of Right of Way (RoW) in India as per IRC
Right of Way (RoW) width in india as per IRC:- in india, as per the rules & guidelines of Indian Road Congress (IRC), ideal and standard width of right of way (RoW) for National and state highway should be 45 metre wide and minimum is about 25 meter wide for major district road (MDR), 15 meter wide for others district (ODRs ) and 12 meter wide for village road (VR) in plain area. Their width is greatly reduce in mountainous steep or hilly area, 24m for NH/SH, 18m for MDR, 15m for ODR and 9m for VR. This is ideal, desirable and standard width of Right of Way (RoW) in india.
Right of way width for National Highway:- in india, as per the rules & guidelines of Indian Road Congress (IRC), ideal and standard width of right of way in plain area for National and state highway should be 45 metre wide. This includes width of 30m for built up area and 15m for open area for future extension along its alignment. Their width is greatly reduce in mountainous steep or hilly area, 24m for NH/SH includes 20m for built up area and 4 m for open area.
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Right of way width for MDR:- in india, as per the rules & guidelines of Indian Road Congress (IRC), ideal and standard width of right of way in plain area for major district road (MDR) should be 25 metre wide. This includes width of 20m for built up area and 5m for open area for future extension along its alignment. Their width is greatly reduce in mountainous steep or hilly area, 18m for NH/SH includes 15m for built up area and 3m for open area.
Right of way width for ODR:- in india, as per the rules & guidelines of Indian Road Congress (IRC), ideal and standard width of right of way in plain area for others district road (ODR) should be 15 metre wide. This includes width of 15m for built up area. Their width is greatly reduce in mountainous steep or hilly area, 15m for NH/SH includes 12m for built up area and 3m for open area.
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Right of way width for VR:- in india, as per the rules & guidelines of Indian Road Congress (IRC), ideal and standard width of right of way in plain area for village road (VR) should be 12 metre wide. This includes width of 10m for built up area and 2m for open area for future extension along its alignment. Their width is greatly reduce in mountainous steep or hilly area, 9m for NH/SH.
