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The exponential growth in highway traffic in terms of number of vehicles as well as increased in the magnitude and frequency of loading of commercial vehicles had modelled challenging complications to the highway engineering professionals dealing with planning, design, construction, maintenance and management of the highway network. Due to consistent research and development efforts in various developed and developing countries, there had been various advances in the area of highway engineering and technology. The geometric design of highway in the elementary sense was a tedious job if the manual calculations were brought in practice with the available equations, derivations and the related formulae. But, the availability of the computer-based program with a user-friendly nature for executing the elementary geometric design became a solution to overcome the challenge of the highway design. The study carried out in this paper was based on the geometric design of highway using computer based programming. The geometric design that had been taken into account comprised of the basic elements of highway geometric design, safe sight distance, overtaking sight distance, horizontal curve, transition curve and vertical curve along with their detailed components involved in the highway design. The purpose of this paper was to develop computer-based conceptual geometric design model for highway projects using HTML web application of computer programming. The approach was to assemble fundamental of geometric design conception of highway mentioned above using standard derivations and related equations of highway engineering.