Road Planning and Route Alignment Selection Criteria in the Norwegian Context
Paper in proceeding, 2019

This paper reveals the main factors that guide road alignment design process in Norway. The goal is to discover what constitutes the main priorities for road planners, how these priorities are ranked when it comes to alignment selection, and how they are related to guiding factors identified in official planning documents and government transport plans throughout the life cycle of a road. This is done through a comprehensive literature and data search, involving published academic research in the road alignment design field, and by exploring Norwegian road planning documents and guidelines. Examples from a recently implemented road project are also included as a way to illustrate alignment priorities in theory versus how alignment decisions are made in practice. Particular attention is paid to how key factors influence environmental and social dimensions and how much importance these dimensions are given in the overall decision-making process. The focus on the Norwegian case is relevant in that it will identify which knowledge gaps need to be filled based on actual practices in the Norwegian road sector. The results of this study found that the dominating factors in road planning and alignment selection are the user cost and the environmental and socio-economic as they are directly related to the main national transport strategy of developing a carbon-neutral and resilient transport system. These results can be used to reinforce and amplify existing road planning strategies and to understand where challenges for environmental and social responsible road planning and alignment selection are found.

Author

G. K. Booto

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Reyn O. Born

University of Agder

Babak Ebrahimi

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

H. Vignisdottir

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

H. Brattebø

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Kelly Pittera

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Holger Wallbaum

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

R. A. Bohne

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

17578981 (ISSN) 1757899X (eISSN)

Vol. 471 6 062007

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium, WMCAUS 2018
Prague, Czech Republic,

Subject Categories

Environmental Management

Public Administration Studies

Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology

DOI

10.1088/1757-899X/471/6/062007

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