Visual Impact Assessment for Highway Projects

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Environmental Policy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental impacts
  • Aesthetics
  • Project management
  • Highways
  • Guidelines
  • Esthetics
  • Highway beautification
  • Highway construction
  • Highway planning
  • Highway projects
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HI-88-054
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  This field guide is intended to help those who prepare or review the coverage of visual impacts in environmental assessments or impact statements for highway projects. The guide discusses how to develop such coverage and how to review its adequacy. It presents an approach to identifying the potential importance of visual effects and then assessing the nature of these effects. Within the framework of this approach, the choice of specific assessment techniques should be tailored to the project in terms of appropriate detail and level of effort. The contents of the guide are organized in the following eight chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Esthetics and Visual Impact Assessment; (3) Scoping the Visual Impact Assessment; (4) The Visual Environment; (5) Viewer Characteristics; (6) Visual Effects of Highway Projects; (7) Visual Impact Mitigation; and (8) Management by Visual Objectives. A glossary is included.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92532/dot_92532_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.90 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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