INFLUENCE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON ROADSIDE MANAGEMENT

Research is an important source of new developments in roadside management. However, for research to impact practice, it must be implemented. Sight distances must be maintained, signs not obscured, erosion prevented, and a healthy weed-free turf maintained. Research should include a planning phase that involves an analysis of the problem, outlines objectives and procedures, and assembles the required personnel and resources. This is followed by the actual conduct of the research, which may require several years. Research has a continuing and important role in roadside vegetation management. A few examples from the Indiana program illustrate how research, once implemented, can lead to new maintenance practices with substantial cost savings. Many research and implementation activities would be facilitated by more information on what are the desirable or necessary ingredients of a well-maintained roadside and of special problems where solutions are currently unavailable. Research, and especially the implementation of research, ultimately involves not only the researcher but the user as well. An important ingredient of research implementation is good planning that begins even before the research is initiated. (Author)

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1981/805/805-010.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Symposium on Roadside vegetation management and manipulation Program, August 3-8, 1980, San Antonio, Texas, sponsored by Committee on Roadside Maintenance and Committee on Landscape and Environment Design. Appeared in Transportation Research Rocord No. 805, Roadside Maintenance. 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.
• Authors:
  • Morre, D James
• Conference:
  • Symposium on Roadside Vegetation Management and Manipulation
  • Location: San Antonio Texas
  • Date: 1981-8-3 to 1981-8-8
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: p 11
• Monograph Title: Roadside maintenance (includes proceedings of Symposium on Roadside Vegetation Management and Manipulation)
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 805
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; Field studies; Herbicides; Landscape design; Landscape maintenance; Programming (Planning); Research; Roadside; Vegetation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Old TRIS Terms: Vegetation selection
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00342160
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309032199
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 22 1981 12:00AM