Transcript Harrison TC Enviro Design

AASHTO Technical Committee
on Environmental Design
Report to AASHTO Subcommittee on Design
Indianapolis, Indiana
July 21, 2009
Prepared by
Keith Robinson, ASLA
Principal Landscape Architect
California Department of Transportation
Division of Design
Sacramento, CA
Presented by
Keith Harrison, P.E.
Safety/Geometric Design Engineer
Federal Highway Administration
Resource Center
San Francisco, CA
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
Chair:
Vice-Chair:
Secretary:
AASHTO Liaison:
Tim Stark, Wyoming (N)
Dan Stewart, Pennsylvania (D)
Keith Harrison, FHWA, San Francisco
Jim McDonnell
Region 1
Maryland
New York
Vermont
Region 3
Karen Coffman(L)
Philip Bell(L)
John Narowski(N)
Indiana
Louis Feagans(D)
Iowa
Mark Kerper(N)
2 VACANCIES
Region 2
Region 4
Florida
Jeff Caster(L)
South Carolina Mark Lester(D)
West Virginia
Greg Akers(N)
1 VACANCY
California Keith Robinson(L)
Hawaii
Chris Dacus(L)
Idaho
Greg Vitley(N)
Utah
Becky Stromness(N)
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Objective and Scope
• Review, develop, and recommend
AASHTO positions on environmental
design issues for the AASHTO Highway
Subcommittee on Design, as required or
assigned.
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Continuing coordination with the following
committees:
• Hydrology and Hydraulics.
• AASHTO’s Context Sensitive
Solutions/Design Task Force (or
subsequent committee).
• TRB Task Forces on CSS and
Visualization in Transportation and the
Committee on Landscape and
Environmental Design.
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Publication Responsibility
The technical committee is responsible for
developing and updating the following
documents:
• Guide on Evaluation and Abatement of Traffic Noise
• Guide to Wetland Mitigation Issues for Transportation
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Designers
Policy on Land Use and Source Control Aspects of
Traffic Noise Attenuation
Visualization in Transportation
Guide for Transportation Landscape and Environmental
Design
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Guide on Evaluation and
 Abatement of Traffic Noise
(1993)
• 2004 review determined
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this to be current and
relevant.
Recommend placing this
document on the AASHTO
web site.
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
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Guide to Wetland Mitigation
Issues for Transportation
Designers (1996)
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2004 review determined this
to be current.
Significant recent changes in
wetland mitigation
requirements warrants an
evaluation of this document
to be considered for a
complete TCED review.
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
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Policy on Land Use and Source
Control Aspects of Traffic Noise
Attenuation, 1980
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TCED review in 2004
determined this document to be
obsolete.
TCED recommends it be
REMOVED from the AASHTO
web listing of TCED
publications.
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Visualization in Transportation, 2003
• A web-based publication.
• Content is current.
• Updated once since the original 2002
web posting.
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Guide for Transportation Landscape and
Environmental Design (1991)
• Currently being updated as a NCHRP
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project.
Project developed and sponsored by
Transportation Research Board AFB-40
-Committee on Landscape and
Environmental Design
Research contractor’s effort will
complete soon(?)
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Updating the 1991 Guide for
Transportation Landscape &
Environmental Design
 TRB AFB-40
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Volunteer effort, 2000 – 2004
Proved to be overwhelming task
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Work begun March 2006
“Contentious project from the beginning”
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First look early 2008; not well received
“Final” draft much improved
Combined comments to contractor April 2009
 NCHRP Project 15-33
 AASHTO TCED
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Need for Update
 Obsolete
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content
Not used by
transportation
professionals
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TRB and AASHTO
identified need and
goals for the
update.
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New Title and Scope
 Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
Landscape Architecture and Roadway Design
 Development of Corridor Scale Concepts
 Focus on Integration of Roads, Transit,
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Modes
Furtherance of CSS Concept
implementation
Not intended to be a design manual
Does not create standards
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Content Comparison
Old
 Introduction of Landscape
and Environmental Design
in Transportation
 Landscape and Environmental
Elements in Highway Design
 Environmental Design
 Landscape and Geometric
Design
 Construction Considerations in
Design
 Roadside Management
 Highway Related Areas
 Landscape Considerations for
Airports, Mass Transit Facilities,
Ports and Railroads
 Multiple-Use/Joint Development
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Content Comparison
New
 Complete Corridors and
Evolution of Process
 Guiding principles of
Landscape and
Environmental Design
 Defining Corridor Types
 Elements in the Roadway
Landscape
 Creating Corridors
 Corridor Examples
 Practice Examples
 Links
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 1 - Complete Corridors and
the Evolution of Process
• History of road development
• Interstate Era
• Federal Policy evolution
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 2 - Guiding principles of
Landscape and Environmental
Design
• Environmental
• Context
• Civic Design
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 3 - Defining Corridor Types
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 4 - Elements in the Roadway
Landscape
• Roadway
• Roadway Structures
• Roadside
• Roadside Structures
• Outside the Right of Way
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Ch 4 - Roadside
• Grading
• Stormwater
• Vegetation
• Vegetation
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management
Soil
Pavement edge
Rest areas
Scenic overlooks
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Ch 4 - Outside
the R/W
• Land Use
• Access
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Management
Visual Impact
Assessment
Scenic Byways
Outdoor
Advertising
Park and Ride
Wireless
Communication21
Towers
Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 5 Creating
Corridors
• Urban Core
• Urban
• Suburban
• Exurban
• Rural
• Remote
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 6 Corridor
Examples
• Urban Core
• Urban
• Suburban
• Exurban
• Rural
• Remote
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 7 Practice
Examples
• Summary
• Benefits
• Background
• Process
• Implementation
• Resources
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Chapter 8 – Links
• Resources
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• etc
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Creating Complete Roadway Corridors
 Status
• NCHRP Panel evaluation/balloting
• TRBAFB-40 evaluation
• AASHTO TCED balloting/recommendation
• AASHTO SCOD recommendation
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Work Underway/Planned for 2009
• Coordinating with the NCHRP project panel
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updating the 1991 Guide for Transportation
Landscape and Environmental Design.
Proposed activities:
Web-based guidance on new methods for
retaining and using storm water runoff in
ROW (jointly with TCHH)
AASHTO’s CSS work and publications
 TRB Task Forces on CSS and
Visualization
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 Publications (current or proposed) that the
TCED committee is interested in
participating in updating/developing, now
or in the future, include:
• On-Site Drainage Retention, not Conveyance
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(currently proposed as a new topic)
Developing and Retaining an Effective CSS
Program (currently proposed as a new topic)
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Technical Committee on Environmental Design
 5-Year Goals
1. Retain multi-disciplinary membership
2. Gain exception from SCOH/SCOD rule which limits eligible
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Chairs of Technical Committees
Fill remaining vacancies
Gain approval for 1 additional Region 4 member
Share CSS activities
Publication updates
1. 2nd request to place pocket-sized 40-page 1993 Guide
on Evaluation and Abatement of Traffic Noise on the
AASHTO Web site. We have determined the guidance to
still be current, but few ask for it in printed version.
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Questions?
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