Arahan Teknik (Jalan) 9-86 - A Guidelines for Installation of Kilometer Post

Roads BranchPublic Works Department Malaysia

Jalan Sultan Salahuddin50582 Kuala Lumpur

Arahan Teknik (Jalan) 9/86

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A Guidelines

Installation Of

Kilometer

Post

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GUIDELINES INSTALLATION OF KILOMETRE POST

GUIDELINES FOR THE INSTALLATION OFKILOMETRE POST CONTENTSI, Introduction

In line with the Government's policyon metrication, the kilometre post wasintroduced in the mid 1970's to replacethe milestone. During the course of timethe original design encountered numer-ous shortfalls and inadequacies such asthe legibility of the letterings, spacing ofthe post and type of information provid-ed. As a result of the above deficienciesseveral states took the initiative to put uptheir own design, resulting in non-4niformity.

In order to attain a standard kilome-tre post throughout the country, a reviewwas carried out by the Road Branch(Design Unit), The revised design waspresented at a Workshop on RoadStandards in May 1984 and was adopted to replace all existing posts.

The revised post was designed bas-ing on the following objectives :

i. a source of information to the public as regarding the distance toand from cities, towns terminal points and important locations.

ii. to designate the road for administrative purpose.

iii. an inventory for the purpose of road maintenance

iv. a means of locating addresses in particular those addresses locatedoutside the town limits. The post also serves to locate positionof villages or settlement away from the town.

v. an assurance to the road users that they are travelling in the right direction.

II. Design RequirementsThe kilometre post shall consist of

two types to be installed together at dif-ferent spacing on all Federal Roads.The two types shall be designated asType A and Type B.

1. Type A1.1 Shape

The shape shall be of a V - sectionof thickness 50mm. The detailed dimen-sions are as shown in Appendix 1

1.2 Material The material shall be concrete of mix

1:1.5:3 - 19mm. The concrete shall havea minimum crushing cube strength of 25N/mm2 at 28 days and shall comply withthe recommendations in CP 110(1972)The concrete shall be reinforcedwith wire meshing of size 1 SWG. at100mm spacing complying with BS.4483. The details of reinforcements areas shown in Appendix I.

1.3 Interval The post shall be installed at every 5

kilometre spacing or at least one shallbe planted if the distance between twoimportant locations is less than 5 km.

1.4 Information1.4.1 The information written on theface shall be both the destination nameand the distance to the destination. Thedestination shall be of two, one primaryand the other secondary. On roadswhere there is no secondary destinationahead the post shall only show thename of the primary destination and the

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distance to it. Primary and secondarydestinations are generally define& asbelow:-

Primary destinations are:Federal Capital, State capitals, ports

of disembarkation and terminal points.Secondary destinations are:

District capitals, intersection pointsand other important towns.

A list of the primary and secondarydestinations for Peninsular Malaysia isas shown in Appendix IV together withtheir abbreviated form.

It is to be noted that some of the sec-ondary destinations listed in Appendix IVare designated as primary destinationsfor certain roads.

The arrangement of the letteringsand numerals is as shown by a typicalexample in Appendix I. The informationshall be written on both the longer outerfacesof the post.1.4.2 A route-marker in the form of astandard JKR logo shall be fixed to boththe longer outer facesof the post to indi-cate the number of the route.

1.5 Benchmark A brass benchmark supplied by the

Survey Department shall be cast intothe concrete foundation as shown inAppendix III. The reduced level of thebenchmark shall be determined by theSurvey Department. The SurveyDepartment shall be informed of anyphysical movement of the concretefoundation to enable them to redeter-mine the reduced level of the bench-mark .

2. Type B

2.1Shape The shape shall be of a rectangulation

section of thickness 5*)0 mm. Thedetailed dimensions are as given inAppendix II.

2.2Material The material and specifications

shall be as stated under sub-clause 1.2

2.3Interval The post shall be placed at every

1 km except the fifth post which will bereplaced by Type A.

2.4 Information The post shall indicate the primary

destination and the distance to the pri-mary destination. The primary destina-tion is as defined under subclause1.4.1. A list of primary destinations forPost Type B and their abbreviations isas shown in Appendix111. 3.General(For both type A and Type B).

3.1 Colour3.1.1 The colour of the post andfoundation shall be in white.

3.1.2 The destination letterings anddistance numerals shall be in silverwhite on blue background. The numer-al for the route marker shall be in blackon yellow background (For Type A only)

3.1.3 The colour shall comply to thefollowing:

a.Blue - No 109 Middle Blue B.S. 381 C: 1964

b.Yellow - No. 356 Golden Yellow B.S 381 C:1964

c. White - To comply with clause 1.3.2 B.S. 873 Part 2 1973. Reflection factor not less than 0.8and the day light luminance factornot less than 0.6



3.1.3 The colour shall comply to thefollowing:

a.Blue - No 109 Middle Blue B.S. 381 C: 1964

b.Yellow - No. 356 Golden Yellow B.S 381 C:1964

c. White - To comply with clause 1.3.2 B.S. 873 Part 2 1973. Reflection factor not less than 0.8and the day light luminance factornot less than 0.6

d.Black - To comply with Clause 1.3.3 B.S. 873 Part 2 1973. Reflection factor not more than 0.02.

e.For the Chromaticity Colour Coordinates refer to Appendix A.

3.2 Aluminium blankThis shall be of wrought alminium

sheet conforming to B.S 1470: 1072and B.S. 4300/6: 1969 (Suplementary;.It shall be of 1 mm thick with a thick-ness tolerances t 0.06mm

3.3 Retro-reflective sheetingThis shall be of high intensity grade.

The sheeting shall consist of sphericallens elements embedded within a trans-parent plastic having a smooth flat outersurface. The requirements for encapsu-lated lens wide angle flat top reflectivesheeting are as tabulated below:

The photometric performance of thereflective sheeting shall satisfy the fol-lowing conditions:

i. The average luminance shall be between 43 and 108 cd/m2

ii. The maximum luminance shall not exceed 323 cd/m2

iii. There shall be a minimum luminance variation. The distribution of illumination shall be reasonably

uniform and the retro-reflective sign shall not present a patchy appearance.

The retro-reflective sheeting shall beadhered securely onto the aluminiumblank by means of a vacuum applicator.The adhesive bond shall not be lessthan 3.5N/mm2 when tested in singleshear. The transparent colours are tc beapplied to the reflective sheeting by theconventional silk screen process.

3.4 Epoxy bonder The aluminium blank shall be

adhered to the concrete surface and byan approved epoxy bonder. It shall have a minimum tensile bondstrength and shear bond strength of 3.5N/mm2 and 2.1N/mm2 respectively.

3.5 Letterings and NumeralsThe height of the numerals shall be

100mm for both Type A and B. Theheight of the letterings to indicate thedestination shall be 80 mm for Type Aand 70 mm for Type B. The height how-ever may be reduced to no less than 60mm for certain excessively long namewhich cannot be abbreviated. Both thenumerals and letterings shall be ofSeries 2 Standard

3.6 Location3.6.1 The post shall be planted onthe left side of the road if the motorist isheading north and east. If the motorist isheading north-east or north-west, it shallalso be planted on the left.

3.6.2 On divided roads the post shall beplanted on the left side of each carriage-way. The posts on both sides of the car-riageway shall be directly opposite eachother.3.6.3 The post shall be planted at 2



metres from the edge of the carriage-way or at the outer edge of the roadshoulder whichever is the lesser.

3.6.4 In general the distance indicatedon the post shall refer to the distance tothe General Post Office (for large towns)and Post Office (for smaller towns) ofthe destination.3.7 Reference NumberA reference number for the purpose ofroad maintenance will be given for eachpost (both Type A and B) by Ibu PejabatJKR, Cawangan Jalan, UnitPenyelenggaraan.

LIST OF DESTINATION NAMES

PRIMARY DESTINATION NAME ABBREVIATED FORM

1. KOTA BHARU KT. BHARU2. KUALA TERENGGANU KUALA

TERENGGANU3. KUANTAN KUANTAN4. JOHOR BAHRU J. BAHRU5. MELAKA MELAKA6. SEREMBAN SEREMBAN7. KUALA LUMPUR K. LUMPUR8. KELANG KELANG9. SHAH ALAM SHAH

ALAM10. IPOH IPOH11. BUTTERWORTH BUTTERWORTH12. ALOR SETAR A. SETAR13. KANGAR KANGAR14. KUALA PERLIS K. PERLIS15. PELABUHAN PASIR GUDANG PELABUHAN16. PELABUHAN KELANG PELABUHAN



17. GUA MUSANG G. MUSANG18. KUALA LIPIS K. LIPIS19. KAMPUNG KAMAN K. KAMAN20. BRINCHANG BRINCHANG21. MERSING MERSING22. BATU PAHAT BT. PAHAT23. KUALA PILAH K. PILAH24. GEMAS GEMAS25. JERTEH JERTEH26. KAMPUNG RAJA KG. RAJA27. JELI JELI28 DABONG DABONG29. TEMERLOH TEMERLOH30. KUALA ROMPIN K. ROMPIN31. KUALA MENTIGA K. MENTIGA32. PORT DICKSON P. DICKSON33. LUMUT LUMUT34. GEORGE TOWN GEORGE-

TOWN35. PEKAN PEKAN36. TELOK INTAN T. INTAN37. BIDOR BIDOR38. BAYAN LEPAS BAYAN

LEPAS39.. BALIK PULAU BALIK

PULAU40. BATU FERRINGGI BATU

FERRINGGI41. PASIR PUTEH P. PUTEH42. PARIT PARIT43. BERUAS BERUAS44. DAMAR LAUT DAMAR LAUT (Post Type A)

DAMARLAUT (Post Type B)

45. PANTAI REMIS PANTAI REMIS (Post Type A)PANTAI (Post Type B)REMIS



46. GERIK GERIK47. SUNGAI PETANI SG. PETANI48. SEMPADAN THAILAND SEMPADAN

THAILAND49. BAGAN DATOH BAGAN

DATOH50. BUKIT FRASER B. FRASER51. TANAH RATA T. RATA52. BUKIT IBAM B. IBAM53. SEGAMAT SEGAMAT54. PENGKALAN CHEPA P. CHEPA55. KUALA SANGLANG KUALA

SANGLANG56. KUALA SEPETANG KUALA

SEPETANG57. TAIPING TAIPING58. KUALA KEDAH K. KEDAH59. PADANG BESAR PADANG

BESAR60. BUKIT KAYU HITAM B.K. HITAM61. KUALA KURAU KUALA

KURAU62. BAGAN SERAI BAGAN

SERAI63. LAPANGAN TERBANG SUBANG LAPANGAN

TERBANG64. KARAK KARAK65. TAMPIN TAMPIN66 . KUALA SELANGOR K. S'GOR



SECONDARY DESTINATION NAME ABBREVIATED FORM

1. PASIR PUTEH P. PUTEH2. TANAH MERAH T. MERAH3. JELI JELI4. KUALA KRAI K. KRAI5. JERTEH JERTEH6. DUNGUN DUNGUN7. PELABUHAN KUANTAN PELABUHAN8. PEKAN PEKAN9. CHUKAI CHUKAI10. MARANG MARANG11. MACHANG MACHANG12. KUALA ROMPIN K. ROMPIN13. MARAN MARAN14. GERIK GERIK15. BANTING RANTING16. SEPANG SEPANG17. PORT DICKSON P. DICKSON18. SITIAWAN SITIAWAN19. FANTAI REMIS PANTAI REMIS20. TAIPING TAIPING21. PARIT PARIT22. BERUAS BERUAS23. BENTONG BENTONG24. RAUB RAUB25. BALING BALING26. PENGKALAN HULU PENG. HULU27. KUALA KUBU BAHRU K.K. BAHRU28. BUKIT FRASER B. FRASER29. JERANTUT JERANTUT30. BENTA BENTA31. BAHAU BAHAU32. KERATONG KERATONG



33. TAPAH TAPAH34. RAWANG RAWANG35. TANJUNG MALIM TG. MALIM36. SLIM RIVER SLIM RIVER37. BIDOR BIDOR38. KAMPAR KAMPAR39. GAMBANG GAMBANG40. TEMERLOH TEMERLOH41. KARAK KARAK42. MENTAKAB MENTAKAB43. ALOR GAJAH A. GAJAH44. REMBAU REMBAU45. KUALA SELANGOR K. S'GOR46. SUNGAI BESAR SG. BESAR47. SABAK BERNAM S. BERNAM48. TELOK INTAN T. INTAN49. MUAR MUAR50. BATU PAHAT BT. PAHAT51. PONTIAN KECHIL P. KECHIL52. AYER HITAM A. HITAM53. KELUANG KELUANG54. KOTA TINGGI KT. TINGGI55. MERSING MERSING56. KAJANG KAJANG57. TAMPIN TAMPIN58. YONG PENG YONG PENG59. SEGAMAT SEGAMAT60. GEMAS GEMAS61. SUNGAI PETANI SG. PETANI62. JITRA JITRA63. KUALA KANGSAR K. KANGSAR64. BAGAN SERAI BAGAN SERAI65. PARIT BUNTAR P. BUNTAR66. KELANG KELANG67. PELABUHAN KUANTAN PELABUHAN68. KUALA PILAH K. PILAH



Color CodeThe following color code has

been established and identified byJKR as being appropriate for use inconveying traffic control information.The colors coded below are used forroad furnitures, other than traffic signfaces, such as road markings trafficsignal and traffic finish paint or ofhigher quality material.

Yellow - No. 356 British Standard 381C (Golden Yellow)

White - Part 1 clause 1.3.2 and1.3.3 British Standard 873

Black - Part 1 clause 1.3.2 and1.3.3 British Standard 873

Orange - British Standard 0.004

Note:The colors used for all traffic

sign faces should be comparable tothat formed by the chromaticity coor-dinate below, and should be of retroreflective material.

COLOR1 2 3 4

x y x y x y x y

Red 0.690 0.310 0.595 0.315 0.569 0.341 0.655 0.345

Orange 0.610 0.390 0.535 0.375 0.516 0.394 0.581 0.418

Yellow 0.504 0.458 0.525 0.473 0.493 0.507 0.474 0.488

Green 0.140 0.380 0.135 0.440 0.110 0.438 0.115 0.378

Dark Green 0.040 0.460 0.100 0.460 0.100 0.380 0.030 0.380

Blue 0.134 0.043 0.169 0.097 0.154 0.125 0.114 0.007

White 0.350 0.360 0.300 0.310 0.285 0.325 0.335 0.375







All dimensions are in mm











NOTES :-

1. The brass bolt shall be inserted into the brass platewith the soffit of the bolt head held firmly to the top of the brass plate before casting into the concreteblock.

2. The top surface of the brass plate shall be flushedwith the top surface of the concrete block.

3. The brass bolt and plate shall be supplied by theS.O. Before commencement and during the castingof the concrete block.

* All dimension are in mm



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