RELATING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS TO CHOICE OF HIGHWAY DESIGN

This paper which concerns itself with the estimation and valuing of environmental impacts and the comparing of alternative designs in these terms, discusses the prediction, quantification and costing of environmental factors, as well as the broad relation of environmental impacts to road design. A brief resume is presented of road design costs and their make-up, and the approaches to evaluation are reviewed. The application of cost-effectiveness analysis is described, and case studies are presented as illustrations. It is concluded that there is no universally applicable profile or design, and that despite the present uncertainties about values of various environmental factors, it is possible to make some estimates of enhanced costs and value for money.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at Seminar X (Road Design 1: General Topics) of the PTRC Summer Annual Meeting, Warwick University, England, 8-12 July 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 
• Authors:
  • Collier, J C
• Publication Date: 1974-7

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 276-288
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Comision Permanente del Asfalto
  • Publisher: Comision Permanente del Asfalto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Appraisals; Case studies; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Environmental impacts; Estimating; Forecasting; Highway design; Quantitative analysis
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quantifying
• Old TRIS Terms: Substitutes
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Finance; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096293
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: PTRC/P/108
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 1975 12:00AM