Download or read book Proposed Methodology for Estimating the Impact of Highway Improvements on Urban Air Pollution written by Wallace E. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this methodology is to indicate the expected change in ambient air quality in the vicinity of a highway improvement and in the total background level of urban air pollution resulting from the highway improvement. Both the jurisdiction in which it is located and groups living adjacent to the proposed improvement should be made aware of the total and relative change to be expected. This change should be related to levels of air pollution which have known effects on human, animal, and crop health, property values, and activity operating costs such as cleaning and air filtering in urban areas. If the construction of a highway network will itself lend to air pollution exceeding established air quality standards, or in conjunction with the land uses it encourages will exceed such standards, the local jurisdictions should be aware of the trade offs between highway and other types of pollution needed to stay below the standards set for the area. In addition the procedure for estimating vehicle emission levels and concentrations on the improvement right-of-way can also be used to estimate the effects of air pollution on driver behavior and highway safety.
Download or read book Assessing the Effects of Highway widening Improvements on Urban and Suburban Areas written by Thomas Nelson Harvey and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Methodology for estimating the economic impacts of highway improvements written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Methodology for Estimating the Impacts of Changes in Highway Performance written by Ernest J. Mosbaek and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating highway impacts written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidance for Estimating the Indirect Effects of Proposed Transportation Projects written by Louis Berger and Associates and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration."
Download or read book Procedures for Estimating Highway User Costs Air Pollution and Noise Effects written by David A. Curry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of this project were to evaluate data related to user costs on various highway facilities under different levels of service, volumes, and other conditions, and to develop a methodology for relating these variables to user costs and to air pollution and noise effects. The research was to include sensitivity analyses to identify the highway design and situation variables that have major impacts on output variables and therefore should be included in results presented to highway decision makers. The research team from Stanford Research Institute compiled and updated motor vehicle running cost data for use in calculating relative road user costs at different levels of highway service as affected by details of geometric design and traffic performance. By use of appendix A of the highway capacity manual, relationships were derived for peak-hour volume per lane as a function of AADT per lane pair. Queuing was analyzed based on the shock wave method for uninterrupted flow and the deterministic method for interrupted flow. A methodology for estimating vehicle emissions was developed based on prototypical vehicle results and projected trends in pollution control standards.
Download or read book Transportation Planning on Trial written by Mark Garrett and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-05-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors′ ad copy***Use whenever possible*** The Clean Air Act of 1991 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1994 require that metropolitan transportation planning agencies give high priority to the improvement of air quality. Under these laws, transportation planners must design regional highway and transit systems that contribute substantially to the attainment of federal air quality standards. This new requirement reveals important limitations to the standard methods by which transportation planners do their work. The mathematical models and statistical techniques used by transportation planners appear to be inadequate to enable them to analyze the air quality implications of alternative transportation plans. This was the situation when a group of environmental organizations brought suit in federal district court alleging that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay area had violated requirements of these laws in its transportation planning and highway funding activities. This volume provides an account of the legal dispute that pitted environmentalists against regional transportation planners, and which demonstrated that regional transportation planning methods are in need of substantial improvement. This monograph should be of interest to urban planners, environmentalists, public policy analysts, and those who apply mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to questions of public policy. The authors--an attorney and a transportation planner who took part in the lawsuit--analyze the specific arguments made by both sides in this important legal action, and draw from the specific case broader conclusions about the role of technical analysis in public policy making. *************************************************************** Urban planning does not and cannot exist in isolation--there are a large number of external factors that impact on a planner′s work including politics and the planning commission; environmental impact studies; and national, state, and local legislation. Focusing on the interrelations between federal legislation, the judicial process, and transportation planning, Transportation Planning on Trial examines the interaction between regional transportation planning and environmental, particularly air, quality. This unique volume is designed to help urban planners understand the legal restrictions and requirements that directly impact how they operate. It considers two recent federal legislation pieces--the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991--that mark the most important landmarks in a decade-long shift in emphasis in regional transportation planning. This groundbreaking volume will be vitally important to transportation planners, students of urban and transportation planning, transportation policymakers, environmentalists and environmental lawyers.
Download or read book Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to Congress on Section 109 h Title 23 United States Code guidelines Relating to the Economic Social and Environmental Effects of Highway Projects written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for 1982 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 5455 Expediting Project Delivery to Improve Transportation and the Environment Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Environmental Policy Act Relative to Highways Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads 91 2 August 25 1970 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Side Hwy Project New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inventory of Federal Energy related Environment and Safety Research for FY 1977 written by United States. Department of Energy. Environmental Impacts Division and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Report written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
