Zusammenfassung
Summary
The rural road network in Austria consists of all roads that are neither federal nor provincial roads and serve the purpose of enabling access to the rural area. This low volume road network includes all municipal roads, farm roads and forest roads. The total length amounts to about 160.000 kilometers or 80 % of the total Austrian road network. The responsibility for construction and maintenance with view to this rural road network is split up between private persons and public authorities. Within these special circumstances a new technical design guideline for rural track paths has been elaborated in Austria regarding also existing guidelines in neighboring countries. The main part of the paper deals with this new design guideline and shows an innovative way to handle activities in construction and maintenance.