• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.129-138
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• 2011

This research has proposed a quantitative environmental assessment method of road routes based on the various policies and literature, and applied such proposal to the planned road routes to evaluate the environment-friendly road routes. Accordingly, the case sections per each region of Joong-bu, Gang-won, and Nam-bu were selected to execute the proposed environmental assessment method. Consequently, it has been confirmed that the distribution of environmental score of the subject region of each case section varied. In particular, for the Gang-won region, the high scores took up the most. Also, to indicate the degree of environment per each section, a route which minimizes the environmental effects per subject region was created to analyze the environmental degree per each section. As a result, the section in the region with the highest environmental sensitivity, in other words the Gang-won region with many high scores, had the lowest environmental degree.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.37-44
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• 2008

Soil ecology has important roles in global ecosystems. However, soil ecological quality information is being ignored when assessing ecological impact of construction actions. And methods for classifying and assessing soil ecological quality have been very little established in comparison to those for animal and plant ecosystems. In this study, it was examined whether soil ecological quality information has influence on determining an eco-friendly route for a road construction project. For this, sensitivity analysis was systematically performed by varying the relative significance (weights) of soil ecological quality information among natural environmental and ecological factors. When the weight of soil ecological quality was greater than just 14%, the soil ecological quality information significantly influenced the determination of the eco-friendly routes for a specific road construction project. This demonstrates that soil ecological quality information has to be considered for more reliable environmental impact assessment, and also supports the validity of use of soil ecological quality information and its mapping technique in planning and siting of eco-friendly construction projects.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.5 no.2 s.10
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• pp.33-53
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• 2003

This study presents the system to develop the web-based pro-environmental road planning and evaluation system in order to support the decision making for the land development. It was found that the proposed system can display the analysis result 3 dimensionally based on digital map and it can be applied to document development towards efficient operations.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.611-618
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• 2009

Road construction has been worked on by focusing on cost effectiveness such as the reduction of construction costs without understanding the natural environment and ecosystems. In addition, since ecosystems have been destroyed and the habitats of animals and plants have been isolated, wild animals have sought other habitats or have moved into isolated habitats. Thus, issues such as roadkills or the extermination of species are increasingly occurring. Based on this background, the development and application of a general assessment method need to be researched in order to verify whether or not spaces or habitats where animals can be inhabited and their species can be maintained exist. The purpose of this study is to develop an ecosystem map where a conservation value evaluation method considering the functions of an ecosystem where animals live as well as the naturalness of ecosystems is used and can be made into a drawing. The items applied to evaluate the habitat conservation values were naturalness, rarity, and functionality, and sub-items for evaluation were created. GIS as well as the evaluation items were used to create a digital map about the level of importance based on the evaluation criteria. The created digital map showed that it was not limited to the adjustment or distribution of the fauna and flora but was applicable for a general ecosystem evaluation method for the conservation of habitats. It is expected that the isolation of habitats would be able to be minimized if the digital map is used for road construction projects. The digital map is deemed to be able to be used for the construction of environmentally friendly roads, which will minimize the destruction of ecosystems and the isolation of habitats for creatures.