LOCATION OF MAJOR INTER-URBAN TRUNK ROAD SCHEMES WITH REGARD TO NOISE AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES. DISCUSSION PAPERS. REPORT OF A WORKING PARTY

The terms of reference of the working party, set up in February 1975, were "to draft guidance to road construction units on the location of major inter-urban trunk road schemes, with regard to noise and other environmental issues". Details are given of the evaluation method used to assess: (1) noise (buildings and pedestrians); (2) vibration and infra-sound; (3) air pollution (lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, development of numeric expressions, long-term and short-term exposure); (4) visual effects (landscape attractiveness, intrusion of the road into the landscape, intrusion of the road as it affects individuals, aids to the measurement of visual effect); (5) severance (the urban motorways project team case studies and other studies); (6) danger (personal injury accidents, heavy goods vehicles, danger index for the future); (7) land take (buildings, non-agricultural land, agricultural land, severance of agricultural land, buildings with special status, mineral workings); (8) temporary environmental effects (contributory effects, construction noise, disturbance of the existing road system); (9) monetary evaluation (trade off methods, possible cost-benefit analysis, application). /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Department of the Environment, England

  Saint Christopher House, Southwark Street
  London SE1 0TE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Jefferson, J R
• Publication Date: 1976-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Air pollution; Alignment; Arterial highways; Benefit cost analysis; Crashes; Environment; Environmental impacts; General surface features of the earth; Heavy vehicles; Highways; Intercity transportation; Landscaping; Location; Noise; Primary highways; Property acquisition; Road construction; Sound; Specifications; Traffic crashes; Vibration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway location; Interurbans; Landscape; Visual intrusions
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 2894: Alignment; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 2455: Environment; 388: Inter urban; 118: Land acquisition; 2887: Landscaping; 9061: Location; 1078: Lock (waterway); 2748: Main road; 3665: Road construction; 6748: Sound; 177: Specifications; 8119: United Kingdom; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159803
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM