CIVE 4337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gippsaero Ga10, Decision-Making, Unit

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Course: CIVE 4337
• Professor: Smith

Document Summary

Study notes (highlighted parts are for assessment questions): Each party involved in developing transportation needs to play its role properly in order to achieve cost-effective results, which are in turn required to keep transportation costs low and ensure country competitiveness. These firms need to ensure that they have the necessary expertise available to carry out the investigations and designs. They also need to be familiar with the owners, administrator requirements and related legislation. The protection of the environment is enshrined in the bill of rights, which dictates that everyone has a right to a healthy and well protected environment. In the case of roads, typical environmental issues are: Social environmental impacts caused by both the presence of the road such as noise and traffic adjacent to living areas, schools and hospitals, and the effects of construction of the road, for example, migrant workers.