An integrated model for the Environmental Impact Assessment of Highways in China

Author

Cai, Hao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Dev. & Planning, Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In China, environmental issues caused by construction and operation of highway catch more and more attention, and thus environmental impact assessment of highway has become an important part of feasibility study. According to the Specifications for Environmental Impact Assessment of Highways in the People´s Republic of China, this paper proposes an integrated model for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of highway. The model has two main characteristics. Firstly, the whole highway is divided into several sections, and then weight of each section is distributed by its importance. Secondly, a novel method is presented to standardize the second-class quantitative indexes. The proposed model is scientific, rational, objective, comprehensive and well operable. Its performance is satisfied in practice.

Keywords

environmental management; road building; statistical analysis; China; environmental impact assessment; highway construction; integrated model; second-class quantitative indexes; Biological system modeling; Indexes; Roads; Sections; TV; Water pollution; Environmental Impact Assessment(EIA); Highway; Integrated model; Road construction; standardization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7486-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929255

Filename

5929255