This document presents a project on developing a road network plan for Sylhet Agricultural University. It discusses the existing road conditions, objectives of the project, methodology, results and proposed road plans. The methodology included collecting primary and secondary data through surveys. The existing roads were analyzed and 8 new proposed roads were identified through stakeholder consultation. A priority index was developed based on stakeholder feedback to rank the proposed roads. The top priorities for new roads were the entrance road in front of new men's hall and the road beside the playground. Recommendations included constructing the road inside the boundary wall first for security reasons.

1. PROJECT PRESENTATION
By
Joyshankar Baidya
&
Israt Jahan Ripa
Department of Agricultural Construction &
Environmental Engineering
Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet

2. DEVELOPMENT OF A ROAD NETWORK
PLAN FOR SYLHET AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY
Title of The Project
Supervisor: Dr. Md. Altaf
Hossain
Associate Professor and chairman,
Department of Agricultural Construction
and Environmental Engineering,
Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet

3. Introduction
A road is a way on land between two places that has
been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by
foot or vehicles
The road network planning of a campus describes a
part of the University’s physical footprint

4. Road network planning of Sylhet Agricultural
University campuses has been a real challenge due to
its land limitation
 Existing road network is declining due to
construction of new infrastructure
Therefore it is now essential to reconstructed the
existing road according to standard

5. Objectives
 To know the existing road network facilities.
 To identify necessary aspects for improvement.
 To propose a suitable road network with existing
one.

6. 1.
Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
Information
Collection
Reconnaissance survey
2.
Analysis of collected
information and data
AutoCAD
Sketch up
3.
Propose a reasonable road network plan
Methodology
Chain survey
Questionnaire survey

7. Results and
discussion

8. EXISTING ROAD NETWORK OF THE CAMPUS
Existing Road of Sylhet Agricultural University

9. Existing Road of Sylhet Agricultural University on 3D
map.

10. PROFILE OF THE EXISTING ROAD NETWORK
Road No. Length
(Feet)
Width
(Feet)
Condition Construction Materials
Road No-01 801 14 Existing Pucca
Road No-02 145 40 Existing Concrete
Road No-03 585 9 Existing Pucca and Concrete
Road No-04 480 12 Existing Pucca
Road No-05 430 9 Existing Brick soling
Road No-06 390 12 Existing Pucca
Road No-07 95 6 Existing Brick soling
Road No-08 170 6 Existing Brick soling
Road No-09 210 6 Existing Brick soling
Road No-10 330 6 Existing Brick soling
Road No-11 490 15 Existing Pucca
Road No-12 130 15 Existing Concrete and Brick
soling
Road No-13 165 9 Existing Brick soling
Road No-14 130 15 Existing Brick soling And
Concrete

11. PROFILE OF THE EXISTING ROADNETWORK
Road No. Length
(Feet)
Width
(Feet)
Condition Construction Materials
Road No-15 190 15 Existing Pucca
Road No-16 210 15 Existing Pucca
Road No-17 236 15 Existing Pucca
Road No-18 284 15 Existing Brick soling
Road No-19 634 20 Under construction Reinforcement concrete
Road No-20 115 9 Existing Brick soling
Road No-21 215 10 Existing Concrete and Brick soling
Road No-22 165 15 Existing Reinforcement concrete
Road No-23 305 15 Existing Concrete and Brick soling
Road No-24 215 10 Existing Pucca
Road No-25 110 10 Under construction Brick soling
Road No-26 130 10 Under construction Concrete
Road No-27 102 6 Existing Brick soling
Road No-28 195 10 Under construction Brick soling

12. ENTRANCE AND EXIT PATH(GATE) OF CAMPUS.
Number of gate Space(Feet) Description
Gate no. 1 15 This is the main gate which used to main entrance
and exit way of this campus.
Gate no. 2 15 This gate easy facilitate entrance and exit with
Baluchor Bazar
Gate no. 3 14 This is the gate which using entrance and exit of bus
and construction vehicles
Gate no. 4 10 Which used as entrance gate Professors and
Teachers and their vehicles
Gate no. 5 12 Which used as Vice-Chancellor
and Teachers as entrance and exit gate.
Gate no. 6 Open Its open space between the campus and Alurtol road
of movement for transportation vehicles of
construction materials
Gate no. 7 24 Used as entranc of New Veterinary Clinic
Gate no. 8 Open South side road of the campus that joining the road
no-5 and road no-6 to Alurtol road through it.

13. PROFILE OF THE EXISTING ROADNETWORK
Existing Gate with path line of the campus.

14. Distribution of people’s opinion on Proposed New Roads
List of Proposed New
Roads
According to
Location map
YES categories
YES NO Immediate Soon Later
1) Entrance Road in front of
New Gents Hall 100% 0% 50.0% 50.0% 0%
2) Cross Road between Ladies
Hall to Bus stand 85% 15% 47.0% 35.5% 17.5%
3) Road in front of Mosque
90% 10% 22.2% 72.2% 5.6%
4) Cross Road in front of
Fisheries Building Side 80% 20% 18.6% 56.4% 25.0%
5) Road Inside the Boundary
Wall 97% 3% 52.4% 36.7% 10.9%
6) Road beside Play Ground
95% 5% 47.5% 52.5% 0%
7)Cross Road & Bridge in front
Lake & AET Building 87% 13% 11.3% 83.3% 5.6%
8)Road between New Eco
Building & DVM Building 95% 5% 36.9% 58.1% 5%

15. Proposed New Roads
Entrance Road in front of New Gents Hall
Proposed Road (P.R-1) location on the 3D map

16. Distribution of people’s opinion on (P.R-1B)
Entrance Road in front of New Gents Hall
100%
0%
Required No Need
Requirement according to participants
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Immediate Soon Later
Requirement categories(Duration)
Percentage(%)
50% 50%

17. Cross Road between Ladies Hall to Bus
stand
Proposed Road(P.R-2) location on the 3D map.

18. Distribution of people’s opinion on Cross
Road between Ladies Hall to Bus stand
85%
15%
Requirment according
to participants
Required
No Need
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Immediate
Soon
Later
47%
35.50%
17.50%
Duration
Percentage (%)

19. Road in front of Mosque
Proposed Road(P.R-3) location on the 3D map.

20. Response of Participants on Road in
front of Mosque
90%
10%
Requirement according
to participants
Required
No Need
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
Immediate Soon Later
22.2%
72.2%
5.6%
Percentage
(%)
Requirement Categories (Duration)

21. Cross Road in front of Fisheries Building Side
Proposed Road (P.R-4) location on the 3D map.

22. Requirement Categories (Duration)
Percentage
(%)
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
Immediate Soon Later
18.6%
56.4%
25.0%
80%
20%
Requirment according
to participants
Required No Need
People’s opinion on Cross Road in front of
Fisheries Building Side

23. Road In-side the Boundary Wall
Proposed Road(P.R-5) location on the 3D map.

24. Distribution of people’s opinion on
Road In-side the Boundary wall
97%
3%
Required No Need
Requirement according to
participants
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
Immediate Soon Later
52.4%
36.7%
10.9%
Duration
Percentage
(%)

25. Road beside Play Ground
Proposed Road(P.R-6) location on the 3D map

26. 95%
5%
Required No Need
Requirement according to participants
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
Immediate Soon Later
47.5%
52.5%
0%
Percentage
(%)
Duration
Distribution of people’s opinion on
Road beside Play Ground

27. Cross Road & Bridge in front Lake & AET Building
Proposed Road(P.R-7) location on the 3D map

28. 87%
13%
Required No Need
Requirment according
11.3%
83.3%
5.6%
0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%
Immediate
Soon
Later
Duration
Percentage (%)
Distribution of people’s opinion on Cross Road
& Bridge in front Lake & AET Building

29. Road between New Economic Faculty Building & Old
Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science Building
Proposed Road(P.R-8) location on the 3D map

30. 95%
5%
Required No Need
Requirement according to participants
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
Immediate Soon Later
36.9%
58.1%
5%
Duration
Percentage
(%)
Distribution of people’s opinion on Road between
New Economic Faculty Building & Old Faculty
Veterinary and Animal Science Building

31. Priority
Frequency of responses for the development of Road network
Entranc
e Road
in
front of
New
Gent’s
Hall
Cross
Road
between
Ladies
Hall to
Bus
stand
Road in
front of
Mosque
Cross
Road in
front of
Fisheries
Building
Side
Inside
Boundar
y Wall
Road
Road
beside
Play
Ground
Cross
Road &
Bridge in
front Lake
& AET
Faculty
Building
Road
between
New
Economic
Building &
Veterinary
Faculty
Building
1
2
3
0
137
138
0
0
110
83
41
41
55
179
14
27
41
124
55
55
140
98
29
8
124
137
0
35
27
200
13
35
95
151
13
15
Total 275 275 275 275 275 275 275 275
Priority for Road network development

32. A continuous scale values were set according to the priority as
follows:
No Need Later Soon Immediate
(No Priority) (3rd Priority ) (2nd Priority) (1st Priority)
0 1 2 3
After that the priority index were computed by the following formula:
Where, I= priority index such that 0 ≤ I ≤ 3
𝑆𝑖 = Scale value at ith priority.
𝑓𝑖 = Frequency of ith priority.
N = Total no. of observations = 𝑓𝑖
Planning tools for evaluation
𝑰 =
𝒔𝒊𝒇𝒊
𝑵

33. Priority Index for proposed New road.
Proposed New road Priority Index Rankings in order of priority
Entrance Road in front of
New Gents Hall 2.49
ɪ
Road beside Play Ground
2.45
ɪɪ
Inside Boundary Wall Road
2.34
ɪɪɪ
Road between New Eco
Building & DVM Building 2.19
ɪv
Cross Road between Ladies
Hall to Bus stand 1.96
v
Road in front of Mosque’s
1.95
vɪ
Cross Road & Bridge in
front Lake & AET Building 1.79
vɪɪ
Cross Road in front of
Fisheries Building Side 1.55
vɪɪɪ

34. Proposed Road location of the campus on 3D map

35. Conclusion
The design of campus road network is very complex due to no
land use plan for its proper development. Planning for roads
associated environmental effects are often based on
socioeconomic consideration.
A detailed map of land use pattern will be developed which
will be revealed all important features as well as existing
condition of the university area. By using the road network
map we selected the problems and needs of the study area
according to affordable standards and prioritization.
 Total existing road area is 3.12 acres which occupied 6.24% of
the study area.
 The eight proposed road which occupied 0.942 acre of the study
area.

36. Recommendations
Finally we try to suggest a reasonable road network for
the campus is the following way :
The first and second position in priority table are
‘Entrance road in front of new gent’s hall’ and ‘Road
beside playground’ respectively. But according to the
present security condition, Road inside boundary
wall should be constructed first which is in third
position.

37. Recommendations
Entrance road in front of New Gents hall is not
necessary due to this new hall is under
construction
Most of the pucca road is poor condition for
vehicles transportation due to those roads are used
for construction purposes which needed to
reconstructed.
Stuff quarter interconnecting roads and all other
brick soling roads are need to be developed
immediately according to standard.

38.  Adequate bicycle stand is required to fulfill
the parking demand.
 Finally, all the roads should be developed or
replaced by reinforcement concrete(RCC)
road because the RCC road more durable and
effective than the others.