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Title: RESEARCH PROBLEM STATEMENTS IN LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Accession Number: 00334528
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: This circular contains fourteen research problem statements developed by the Committee on Landscape and Environmental Design, TRB Group 2-Design and Construction of Transportation Facilities. The statements were screened by a subcommittee and the order in which they appear represents the best consensus of priority research needs within the scope of the Committee's activities. The problems cited are (in order): Cost-effective roadside revegetation to enhance physical and psychological roadway features, Value of the psychological effect of visual barriers in solving noise attenuation problems, Scenic highway selection criteria, Maintenance costs of intensively landscaped highway areas, Accommodation of interests in roadside vegetation management and outdoor advertising, Evaluation of plants for city streets and requirements for healthy survival, Cost-effective analysis of erosion control materials and techniques, Use of Landscape Plants by Wildlife, Aesthetic improvement of railroad and rail transit rights of way, Effects of eroded solids from highway construction on aquatic communities, Development of Best Management Practice (BMP) for highway construction, Nitrogen fixation with grosses, Effects of shoulder slope vegetation on subsurface drainage of roadbeds, and soils ecology for highway planting establishment.
Supplemental Notes: 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.
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Pagination: 7 p.
Publication Date: 1981-4
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General); I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 28 2003 12:00AM
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