<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents the results of research that aims to analyse and evaluate the attractiveness of the forest landscape in the vicinity of selected motor vehicle routes that differ in terms of technical parameters, such as motorways, regional roads and local (municipal) roads. The diversity of landscape units was used as the measure of landscape attractiveness. Landscape diversity analysis allows to establish the details related to specific parts of the road and the options for configuring the road environment. These options relate to the way the forest is managed and mainly involve aspects of infrastructure and cultivation. They include activities such as afforestation work and rebuilding the species composition of forest stands. According to the research, the lower the technical class of a road, the greater is the need to take action to adapt the structural-tree stand system to meet the safety requirements of road users.</p></abstract>

This paper presents the results of research that aims to analyse and evaluate the attractiveness of the forest landscape in the vicinity of selected motor vehicle routes that differ in terms of technical parameters, such as motorways, regional roads and local (municipal) roads. The diversity of landscape units was used as the measure of landscape attractiveness. Landscape diversity analysis allows to establish the details related to specific parts of the road and the options for configuring the road environment. These options relate to the way the forest is managed and mainly involve aspects of infrastructure and cultivation. They include activities such as afforestation work and rebuilding the species composition of forest stands. According to the research, the lower the technical class of a road, the greater is the need to take action to adapt the structural-tree stand system to meet the safety requirements of road users.

Assessment of the forest landscape along selected motor vehicle routes

Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Utilization, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland, phone: 48 22 5939134

Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Management Planning, Geomatics and Forest Economics, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland

Folia Forestalia Polonica

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This paper presents the results of research that aims to analyse and evaluate the attractiveness of the forest landscape in the vicinity of selected motor...

Assessment of the forest landscape along selected motor vehicle routes

Published Online: Apr 30, 2016

Page range: 43 - 51

Received: Jan 28, 2016

Accepted: Mar 09, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ffp-2016-0005

Keywords
aesthetics landscape, landscape planning, roadways, social preferences

© 2016 Emilia Janeczko et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Assessment of the forest landscape along selected motor vehicle routes

Published Online: Apr 30, 2016

Page range: 43 - 51

Received: Jan 28, 2016

Accepted: Mar 09, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ffp-2016-0005

Keywordsaesthetics landscape, landscape planning, roadways, social preferences

© 2016 Emilia Janeczko et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
aesthetics landscape, landscape planning, roadways, social preferences