USE OF A CATEGORY-BASED SURVEY TO EVALUATE LANDSCAPE PLANTS ALONG URBAN FREEWAYS

There is a lack of information available concerning responses of landscape plants to urban freeway environments. The results of a category-based survey in the Phoenix metropolitan area identified landscaping installation contracts and plant location with respect to the median as two sources of variation in plant response. Differences in response did not appear to be related to age of contract. Species ere evaluated as individual plants or as groups of plants. The ratio of counts in the healthy category to the summation of counts in problem categories was used as an indicator of suitability for species evaluated as individual plants. The catagory definitions were not well-suited for evaluation of plants as groups. The survey provided an information base useful for making decisions concerning future landscaping activities and in targeting species for detailed monitoring.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1189, Maintenance Planning and Managing Roadside Vegetation. 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:
  • Hatzell, H
  • Duffy, D E
  • Calderone, S J
• Publication Date: 1988

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• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 81-86
• Monograph Title: Maintenance planning and managing roadside vegetation
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1189
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Building; Contracts; Data collection; Evaluation; Facilities; Freeways; General surface features of the earth; Installation; Location; Plants; Surveys; Survival; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Landscape
• Geographic Terms: Phoenix (Arizona)
• Old TRIS Terms: Plant health; Urban freeways
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Design; Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00489662
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 309048036
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 30 1989 12:00AM