Road agencies have a responsibility to design, build and operate roads in an environmentally sensitive manner, which includes addressing ecological issues. Agencies that manage other linear infrastructure, such as railways and utility easements, have similar responsibilities. All major infrastructure projects follow similar stages and processes from inception through planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance. Within this process, there are limited and specific opportunities to most effectively implement ecologically sensitive planning and design.
Road planning, design, construction and operation are complex challenges that attempt to balance environmental, economic and social demands.
Road projects have a typical series of stages that begins with strategic planning and ends with operation.
Appropriate ecological input into a road project should occur in every stage.
Standards and guidelines are critical to ensure a consistent and high‐quality approach to roads and road mitigation.
Road agencies around the world are responding to the changes that society is demanding by including greater consideration of ecological issues when planning, building and managing the road network. This is an important challenge for road agencies because their traditional role as managers of the transportation network is expanding and becoming more complicated. It is imperative that road agencies successfully adapt to these changes to ensure the future road network is as environmentally friendly as possible.
Incorporating Biodiversity Issues into Road Design
The Road Agency Perspective
Handbook of Road Ecology ; 27-31
2015-04-01
5 pages
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Electronic Resource
English
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