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Title:

TOTALITY INDEXES FOR EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF HIGHWAY ALTERNATIVES

Accession Number:

00134008

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309024714

Abstract:

The passage of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, general tightening of pollution laws, and increasing public concern for environmental quality make it mandatory that environmental impact studies be done for proposed construction of facilities such as major highways, airports, dams, and atomic power plants. So that the long-range impact of specific or alternative developments can be appraised, principles of environmental and systems sciences are being applied to the scaling and weighting of the factors. Increasingly, government is turning to academic centers for help and research on environmental impact studies. This paper is a brief account of how, by use of a simple linear vector analysis as and objective quantification of environmental impact, an organized interdisciplinary group at the University of Georgia responded to a specific request from the Georgia Department of Transportation. The paper also discusses how this was followed by a sequence of events that have profoundly influenced and improved the entire transportation process in the Southeast.

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Division A Council. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411419

Authors:

Odum, Eugene P
Bramlett, Gene A
Ike, Albert
Champlin, James R
Zieman, Joseph C
Shugart, Herman H

Pagination:

pp 57-67

Publication Date:

1976

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 561
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia
Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17

ISBN:

0309024714

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Appendices (1) ; Figures (2) ; References (8)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Quantifying

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Subject Areas:

Aviation; Economics; Energy; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Terminals and Facilities

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jul 13 1976 12:00AM

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