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Component

Transport impacts on the natural environment have been addressed in a large body of literature. Increasingly, transport impacts on the natural environment are quantified by ecological footprint analysis. Existing studies analyze it either at aggregated levels or at local levels only when traffic data are available. When such data are unavailable, existing methods cannot estimate transport footprint at local levels. In this study, we propose an approach to estimate and visualize transport footprint along highways where traffic data are not available by using a combination of network analysis and Kriging methods. We demonstrate the use of the approach for estimating transport footprint along highways in Houghton County of Michigan, USA. Transport footprint along highways generated by the proposed approach provide useful information for environmental and transportation planners to understand traffic impacts on the natural environment at local levels and identify hotspots/corridors of transport footprint.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC30 Ecology and Transportation

01362476

12-0754

English

12p

2012

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Environmental impacts; Estimating; Greenhouse gases; Highway traffic; Local transportation; Natural resources; Network analysis (Planning)

Michigan

Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-0754

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2012 4:57PM