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A comprehensive approach to visual resource management for highway agencies
| Authors: | William G. E. Blair, Larry Isaacson, Grant R. Jones |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Type: | General Technical Report |
| Station: | Pacific Southwest Research Station |
| Source: | In: Elsner, Gary H., and Richard C. Smardon, technical coordinators. 1979. Proceedings of our national landscape: a conference on applied techniques for analysis and management of the visual resource [Incline Village, Nev., April 23-25, 1979]. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-35. Berkeley, CA. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Exp. Stn., Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: p. 365-372 |
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Abstract
To help ensure that visual effects are considered at all stages of highway agency decision-making, the Federal Highway Administration contracted with Jones & Jones to develop and conduct a five-day training course to guide highway professionals in developing VRM processes for their own agencies.The training course emphasizes overall principles, the need for a comprehensive approach that deals with all the elements of visual management problems, and the ability to tailor the level of VRM effort to the needs of a specific project. The concept of the VRM objective links assessment to management. The VRM objective is a tool for defining visual management problems and evaluating the effectiveness of alternative solutions. Several examples are included in this paper.