The Environment and Landscape in Motorway Design.

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 environment -- Attach 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 slope -- Conserve water and soil and stabilize the side slope -- Improve the appearance of the motorway and restore the surrounding ecological landscape to its original state -- Lower slope protection costs -- 2.4 Habitat conditions on the slope -- 2.5 Slope landscape design -- 2.6 Landscape design types -- Grass and ground cover plants for slope protection landscaping -- Shrubs for protecting the slope landscape -- Mixed planting of grass and shrubs for protecting the landscape of the slope -- Combination of trees and shrubs for protecting the landscape of the slope -- Landscape of softening and green retaining walls.

2.7 Selection of green plants for the slope -- 2.8 Remaking of the rocky cut slope -- 2.9 Slope greening and construction technologies -- Soil replacement and spreading -- Reinforcing the soil replacement and spread with continuous fibre -- Technology of soil replacement combined with straw sticks -- Three-dimensional vegetation net technology -- Planting pit technology -- Vegetation bag technology -- Tyre slope protection -- Chapter 3 Interchange Environmental Landscape Design -- 3.1 Concept -- 3.2 Landscape design objectives -- Guide drivers' sight -- Protect the slope and consolidate the soil -- Plant vegetation and improve the motorway environment -- 3.3 Creative landscape design -- 3.4 Main types of landscapes -- Rural category -- Suburb category -- Atypical category -- 3.5 Design features of interchanges on the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Lowering of the gradient of all slopes within the interchange -- Distinct themed design of each interchange -- Various natural landscapes created to integrate the interchange into the surrounding environment -- A wetland draining system is used to replace the conventional draining ditch -- Attach importance to the reshaping of the topography -- Chapter 4 Environmental Landscape Design of the Central Reservation -- 4.1 Definition -- 4.2 Functions -- 4.3 Landscape design -- Design principles -- Design space -- Design requirements -- 4.4 Design pattern -- Regular types -- Natural type -- 4.5 Landscape design and analysis of the central reservation of the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Single row type of anti-glare Sabina komarovii -- Interspersing Osmanthus fragrans and Lagerstroemia indica -- Interspersing Trachycarpus fortunei and Lagerstroemia indica -- Interspersing Juniperus chinensis and Hibiscus syriacus -- Double row of Sabina komarovii -- Square column-shaped Viburnum odoratissimum.

Sabina komarovii on one side of the strip -- Shutter blind type Viburnum odoratissimum -- Chapter 5 Environmental Landscape Design of Service Areas and Toll Stations -- 5.1 General -- Factors contributing to the concept - spatial environment formed by the motorway -- Composition of the concept - landscape elements -- Design principle of the 'Pearl Necklace' concept -- Development of the 'Pearl Necklace' concept - dynamic sequential layout of landscapes -- 5.2 Building works and the 'Pearl Necklace' concept of the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Toll station on the main route of the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Donglushan service area -- East Lishui Branch Management Centre -- Tianmu Lake Service Area -- Taihu Lake Service Area -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Environmental Landscape Design of Bridges and Structures -- 6.1 Essential characteristics of bridges -- 6.2 Coordination between bridges and the environment -- Coordination between bridge form and the environment -- Coordinating the proportions and dimensions of the bridge with the surroundings -- Coordination between bridges -- Bridges' colours and materials and their connection with local characteristics -- Other practical issues relating to the coordination between the bridge and the environment -- Landscaping methods of bridges -- 6.3 Analysis of examples of bridges along the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Bridge landscape design concept -- Bridge landscape design principles -- Bridge landscape design style -- Analysis of examples of landscape design -- Chapter 7 Environmental Landscape Design along the Nanjing--Hangzhou Motorway -- 7.1 Design techniques -- 7.2 Hotspot sections along the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Key section I (LK1+700~LK2+900) -- Key section II (K40+20~K40+980) -- Key section III (K50+200~K51+175) and key section IV (K51+175~K52+125) -- Key section V (K60+600~K61+575).

Chapter 8 Environmental Landscape Design of Drainage Systems -- 8.1 General requirements of motorway drainage systems -- 8.2 Consistency of design concepts and drainage system -- 8.3 Innovation in the drainage system of the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway -- Drainage of pavement edge -- Drainage of central reservation -- Drainage of subgrade side ditch -- Layout of cut ditches -- Underground drainage -- Drainage of interchange area -- Drainage of service areas and toll stations -- Drainage of open spaces outside the ditch -- Conclusions -- Chapter 9 Ecological Evaluation of Motorway Green Space Systems -- 9.1 Green space system of the Luojiabian Interchange Area -- Main methods and coverage of ecological evaluation -- Evaluation of the green space system of the Luojiabian Interchange -- Conclusions -- 9.2 Analysis of characteristics of green plant communities on typical sections -- Objects for analysis -- Investigation and analysis methods -- Results and analysis -- Conclusion -- 9.3 Green space system of slopes of typical sections -- Main evaluation content and methods -- Ecological evaluation of vegetation in the typical sections -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 Vegetation Types and Available Plant Resources along the Nanjing-Hangzhou Motorway -- 10.1 Vegetation in Lishui and Nanjing -- 10.2 Vegetation in Liyang and Yixing -- 10.3 Exploitable plant resources -- Vegetation types and structure -- Species of wild plants -- Appendix 10.A Plant Species Adapted to Motorways in Jiangsu Province -- Chapter 11 Green Landscape Design of the Nanjing-Hangzhou Motorway (Phase II) -- 11.1 Project overview -- 11.2 Design principles -- People-oriented principle -- Principle of diversity and unity -- Principle of sustainable development -- 11.3 The details of green landscape design of the Nanjing-Hangzhou motorway (phase II).

Green landscape design of the central reservation -- Slope green landscape design -- Green landscape design of overpass bridges -- Green landscape design of interchange hubs -- Green landscape design at service areas -- 11.4 Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Index -- EULA.

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