Wooded Highway Medians

Landscaping of highway medians and roadway safety at unsignalized intersections.

Well-planted and maintained landscaping can help reduce driving stress, provide better visual quality, and decrease over speeding, thus improving roadway safety. Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Standard Index (SI-546) is one of the more demanding standards in the U.S. for landscaping design criteria at highway medians near intersections. The purposes of this study were to (1) empiri...

Up in the Air: Urban Design for Lrt Stations in Highway Medians

Native Perennial Grasses in Highway Medians: Pre- and Postplant Techniques for Establishment in a Mediterranean Climate

Within highway rights-of-way, native perennial grasses provide desirable services to support natural and human constructed ecosystems. However, native perennial grass establishment in annual grass dominated roadsides of semiarid and Mediterranean climates of the western United States requires specific cultural and chemical management treatments to control weeds. In 2004, field studies were cond...

Assessment of Wooded Area Reduction by Airborne

Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data hold a great deal of promise in monitoring the reduction of single trees and forests with high accuracy. In the literature, the canopy height model (CHM) is the main input used frequently for forest change detection. ALS also has the key capability of delivering 3D point clouds, not only from the top canopy surface, but also from the entire canopy profile and ...

Geometric medians

We discuss several generalizations of the notion of median to points in $R^d$. They arise in Computational Geometry and in Statistics. The notions are compared with respect to some of their mathematical properties. We also consider computational aspects. The issue of computational complexity raises several intriguing questions.