Author: Alan J. HorowitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Assessment of Land-use Impact of Highways in Small Urban Areas
Author: Alan J. HorowitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309100887
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
All phases of road developmentâ€"from construction and use by vehicles to maintenanceâ€"affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past two decades, the Federal Highway Administration and state transportation agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of the effects of transportation on the natural environment. This report provides guidance on ways to reconcile the different goals of road development and environmental conservation. It identifies the ecological effects of roads that can be evaluated in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of roads and offers several recommendations to help better understand and manage ecological impacts of paved roads.
Assessment of Land-use Impacts of Highways in Small Urban Areas
Author: Alan J. HorowitzPublisher: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
ISBN: 9780938744436
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Assessing the Effects of Highway-widening Improvements on Urban and Suburban Areas
Author: Thomas Nelson HarveyPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309058650
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This synthesis will be of interest to highway environmental specialists (particularly those concerned with assessing social and economic impacts), design engineers, planners, utility managers, and others responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of highway-widening improvements. Information is presented on the reasons for highway-widening projects, the nature of the projects, and the methods and practices for application of analytical techniques used to measure the potential or actual impacts of the projects on people and the physical environment. Mitigation measures are also discussed. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the most recent widening projects as reported by states or other transportation agencies, as well as the most frequently encountered issues in highway widening. Selected examples of widening projects are included, as is some recognition of the need for additional information and research in the areas of social and economic impact measurement.
ITF Roundtable Reports Ex-Post Assessment of Transport Investments and Policy Interventions
Author: International Transport ForumPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9282108155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Ex-post evaluation is important to improving the delivery of transport policy objectives. It can be used for multiple purposes at the core of which is the improvement of ex-ante assessment. A small number of jurisdictions employ ex-post evaluation systematically and leading experience is ...
Special Report - Highway Research Board
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Innovation in Public Transportation
Author: Land Use Competition
Author: Jörg NiewöhnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319336282
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition. Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts in which the effects of global change on social-ecological systems unfold. As such, understanding these rapidly changing dynamics is one of the most pressing challenges of global change research in the 21st century. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of the manifold interactions between land systems, the economics of resource production, distribution and use, as well as the logics of local livelihoods and cultural contexts. It addresses a broad readership in the geosciences, land and environmental sciences, offering them an essential reference guide to land use competition.
Land Development Simulation and Traffic Mitigation
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher: Transportation Research Board National Research
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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