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Road Landscape I

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Course abstract

The aim of the course is to introduce students with development of road landscape; road landscape evaluation and planning principles; design of roads and squares, road equipment and communications; the latest legislation on traffic organization equipment, protection belts and requirements for road and street red lines.

Learning outcomes and their assessment

• Knowledge about roads and streets, road planning in the landscape, design of roads and squares with different covering materials, drainage systems and landscape architecture solutions, traffic organization in populated areas, planning and design of bicycle paths. 2 seminar.
• Skills to carry out road landscape evaluation; road, street and bicycle paths, footpaths and squares design in accordance with the design standards. 1 seminar. 1-6 practical work.

• Competence to analyze the road and square projects, rationally select construction materials; to know the protection belts and special requirements for communication protection and traffic organization equipment installation, to evaluate plants suitable for road landscapes. 2 seminar. 1-6 practical work.

Course Content(Calendar)

1.Street and road overall description and materials for designing them. Traffic organisation in urban areas. Road development history and road landscape development. 2 lectures, 1st practical work in laboratory groups, 2h
2.Bicycle roads and pedestrian pathway. 2 lectures ,2nd practical work in laboratory groups, 2h
3.Surface water drainage from driveways and pathways, different solutions, calculations and examples. Service areas and parking’s – planning, drainage and cover. Road landscape elements and perception, road landscape assessment methods. Landscape roads, development basic principles. 2 lectures, 3rd practical work in laboratory groups, 2h
4.Study excursion. Positive and negative road and road landscape design practices. Laboratory work 4h
5.Artificial built structures, dykes, footbridges and slopes. Square integration in landscape. 2 lectures, 1st seminar 2h
6.Road landscape planning and composition principles, foreign experience and non-standard solutions. 2 lectures 4th practical work in laboratory groups, 2h
7.Roadbed, parameters of it and cross-profile, calculations. 5th practical work work in laboratory groups, 2h
8.Road long-profile curves, bankings, calculations of them, utilities and traffic organization equipment. 6th practical work in laboratory groups, 2h. 2 seminar, 2h

Requirements for awarding credit points

Class attendance not less than 75%. The developed practical work was submitted on time. For works submitted after the specified time (if there is no justifiable reason), the mark is reduced by 1 point. Positively evaluated practical work. An accumulative test is also possible, the fulfillment criteria of which are determined by the head of the study course.

Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work

1 practical work. Survey of design territory, road landscape assessment.
2 practical work. Roadbed, parameters of it and cross-profile, calculation of them.
3 practical work. Road traffic intensity, categories and calculations.
4 practical work. Driveway and pathway cover constructions, road constructive layer solutions for design territory.
5 practical work. Roadbed, parameters of it and cross-profile, calculations.
6 practical work. Road long-profile curves, bankings, calculations of them, utilities and traffic organization equipment for design territory.
1 seminar. Presentation (in PowerPoint) about design territory existing situation assessment. Must be included information about existing road infrastructure and territory elements, traffic intensity, existing trees and greenery.

2 seminar. Presentation (in PowerPoint) about design territory development – road infrastructure and street furniture.

Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes

Study course formal test assessment depends on seminar task assessment and study course practical work cumulative assessment.
Practical work and seminar is evaluated according to task evaluating form.

Compulsory reading

1. Naudžuns J. Autoceļu projektēšana.Trases plāna, garenprofila un ceļa klātnes izveidojums. RTU Transportbūvju institūts. Rīga, 2006. 117 lpp. Kopkatalogā e-grāmata: [skatīts 11.05.2017.]. Pieejams: http://www.bf.rtu.lv/documents/nvsd/materiali/acelu_proj_trase.pdf
2. Ieteikumi ceļu projektēšanai. Ūdens novade Autoceļu standartizācijas tehniskās komiteja. Rīga, 2005. 109 lpp.
3. Roads in the landscape. Criteria for their planning, layout and project design. [tiešsaiste] Sevilla. Consejeria de Obras Publicitas y Transportes. 2009. 443 p. ISBN 978-84-8095-559-1 [skatīts 11.05.2017.] Pieejams: http://paisajeyterritorio.es/assets/roads-in-the-landscape.pdf

4. Ilgtspējīga lietus ūdeņu apsaimniekošanas rokasgrāmata. 103 lpp.[tiešsaiste] [Skatīts 06.04.2016.]. Pieejams: http://drainforlife.eu/attachments/article/42/IL%C5%AAA%20dizaina%20vadl%C4%ABniju%20rokasgr%C4%81mata.pdf

Further reading

1. Standarti https://www.lvs.lv/ Latvijas Nacionālā standartizācijas institūcija „Latvijas standarts” (LVS) [tiešsaiste] [skatīts 28.04.2016.]. Pieejams: https://www.lvs.lv
2. Ieviņa D., Kondratenko J. Vadlīnijas Ilgtspējīgai lietus kanalizācijas pārvaldībai. [tiešsaiste] Utena 2004. 69 70 lpp. [skatīts 28.04.2016.]. Pieejams: http://www.bauska.lv/allfiles/files/Projekti/Lietuvas%20parrobezu%20projekti/water/Ilgtspejigas%20lietus

3. Terry DeWan, Terrence J. Scenic Assessment Handbook. State Planning Office Maine Coastal Program. [tiešsaiste] Yarmouth, Maine. 2008. 90 p.. skatīts 11.05.2017.] Pieejams: https://www1.maine.gov/dacf/mcp/downloads/scenic/ScenicAssessmentRpt_LowRes.pdf

Periodicals and other sources

1. http://lvceli.lv/ Valsts akciju sabiedrība „Latvijas Valsts ceļi” [tiešsaiste]. [skatīts 28.04.2016.]. Pieejams: http://lvceli.lv