{"id":783,"date":"2024-07-05T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=783"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:27:50","slug":"requirements-of-a-transition-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/ce\/surveying\/requirements-of-a-transition-curve","title":{"rendered":"REQUIREMENTS OF A TRANSITION CURVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\r\n<li>It must originate and meet the straights at zero curvature i.e. at contact points <em>T<\/em><sub>1<\/sub> and <em>T<\/em><sub>2<\/sub>, the radius of curvature must be infinite.<\/li>\r\n<li>It must meet the circular curve of radius <em>R <\/em>tangentially i.e. radius of curvature at contact points <em>C <\/em>and <em>C&#8217;<\/em> is equal to the radius of curve i.e. <em>R<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<li>The length of transition curve must be such that full super-elevation is achieved at the contact points <em>C <\/em>and <em>C&#8217;<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<li>The rate of increase of curvature along the transition curve should be equal to the rate of increase of super-elevation.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/typical-transition-curve.jpg\" alt=\"Typical Transition Curve\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/surveying\/compound-curve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/surveying\/principle-of-stadia-method-of-tacheometry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a> <br \/><strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-surveying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is Surveying?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must originate and meet the straights at zero curvature i.e. at contact points T1 and T2, the radius of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,2],"tags":[268,252,267],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveying","category-ce","tag-circular-curve","tag-transition-curve","tag-zero-curvature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}