Setback Distance

depends on:

1. sight distance (OSD, ISD and OSD),

2. radius of the curve, and

3. length of the curve.

Case (a) Ls < Lc

For single lane roads:

s
α =
radians
R

degrees

degrees (16.8)
Therefore,

(16.9)

For multi lane roads, if d is the distance between centerline of the road and the centerline of the inner
lane, then

(16.10)

(16.11)

Case (b) Ls > Lc

For single lane:

m1 = R − Rcos(α/2)
m2 = (S − L c )
sin(α/2)
2
The set back is the sum of m1 and m2 given by:

(16.12)
where . For multi-lane road , and m is given by

(16.13)