SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS IN FREEWAY PLANNING, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION

There are a number of interrelated environmental factors to be considered when dealing with a freeway system. Planning, design and construction of a freeway must take into account noise, air, water quality, resource conservation, ecological factors, transportation design, economics, social factors, and legal and political considerations. A means of measuring the impact of these various environmental elements must be developed along with determining the effect the freeway system has on them. In essence all future ground transportation will consist of a linear pathway traversing the countryside, the same as a freeway which reserves the transportation corridor for whatever the future has in store.

• Corporate Authors:

  Bobit Publishing Company

  1155 Waukegen Road
  Glenview, IL  United States  60025
• Authors:
  • Motheral, J G
  • Deussen, R R
  • Gately, T J
• Publication Date: 1977-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 123-139
• Serial:
  • Volume: 103
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Conservation; Economics; Environmental impacts; Freeways; Highway design; Highway planning; Highways; Land use; Noise; Planning; Politics; Regional planning; Road construction; Systems analysis; Systems engineering; Water quality
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway design; Freeway planning; Highway systems
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Economics; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159671
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM