The environment and landscape in highway design

The construction and operation of highways has a significant impact on the environment. While such impact is impossible to avoid, modern highways are constructed and landscaped to minimise these impacts as far as possible. Good landscaping minimises the impact on those living or working close to the highway, while at the same time regenerating the natural landscape disturbed during construction. Using as its background the successful landscape design of the Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway in Jiangsu Province, China, which opened to traffic in 2007, Highway Landscape Design includes ref.

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Impact of Motorway Construction on the Environmental Landscape and Protection Countermeasures; 1.1 Impact on the natural environment; Topography; Soil erosion; Climate; Hydrology; Vegetation; Wildlife; 1.2 Impact on history, culture and scenery; 1.3 Pollution of the surrounding environment; Noise pollution; Water pollution; Atmospheric pollution; Dust and waste; 1.4 Impact on public activities and production; 1.5 Landscape protection countermeasures and measures

Select a rational route and minimize damage to the environmentAttach importance to environmental protection projects during construction, alleviate pollution and prevent water and soil loss; Strengthen environmental quality management during the operation period; Restore and create natural landscapes by planting vegetation, enabling the motorway to integrate with the surrounding environment and promote the development of tourism; Chapter 2 Environmental Landscape Design of Filled and Excavated Sections; 2.1 Concept; 2.2 Classification of the side slope

2.3 Functions of planting vegetation on the slopeConserve water and soil and stabilize t…