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Civil Engineering Department | DCC3113 : Highway & Traffic Engineering

History Roman roads

• Roman’s developed very elaborate system of roads mainly for the purpose of military
movement.

• They constructed in all about one lakh kilometers of road, extending in whole of their

empire.

• An Important road constructed by Romans in 312 B.C called Appian way is still in

existence in Rome.

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