Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Tang-chan Huang, 2006.06

 Feng Chia University - Graduate Institute of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Management

 　　Traditional engineering method for the roadway design in the mountain area has an adverse impact on environment. Each link makes environment influence during construction until it is fully finished. Ecological engineering method emphasizes that high quality environment on the basis of safety and takes actions that suit local circumstance.
　　This research carries out a questionnaire survey of experts’ opinions on traditional engineering method and ecological engineering method, and utilizes the analytical hierarchy process for deriving the weightage of the criteria as a basis for an overall assessment of the method under consideration. On the premise of structural safety, the assessment concerns achievements of a method in three categories of objectives, i.e., characteristic of road, characteristic of roadside, characteristic of organism and a total of eighteen criteria are established.The result shows that ecological engineering method for the roadway design in the mountain area is better than traditional engineering method.