Integrated roadside vegetation management.

Author(s)
Berger, R.L.
Year
Abstract

Since humankind developed systems of travel, nature has challenged the integrity and function of those systems with vegetation growth. Such challenges for a modern highway system range from risks to the safety of facility users to premature deterioration of the road system infrastructure to negative impacts on the environment where the highway facility is located. Limitations on resources available for designing, building, and maintaining highways need to be considered by roadside managers during decision-making processes. New methods and technologies need to be embraced throughout the country to enhance the effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of roadside vegetation management activities. Doing so will allow programs to benefit from innovation and to expand vegetation management methods, materials, and techniques. (Author/publisher) This report may be accessed by Internet users at http://www.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_syn_341.pdf

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Library number
20050613 ST S [electronic version only]
Source

Washington, D.C., National Research Council NRC, Transportation Research Board TRB / National Academy Press, 2005, 25 p. + app., 33 ref.; National Cooperative Highway Research Program NCHRP, Synthesis of Highway Practice ; Report 341 / NCHRP Project 20-5 FY 2001 (Topic 33-04) - ISSN 0547-5570 / ISBN 0-309-07022-8

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