Enhancing Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Along North Carolina Roadsides through Characterizing Herbicide Fate.

Vegetation management along NC roadsides must encompass comprehensive management programs in a fiscally responsible manner ensuring motorist and transportation worker safety. Synthetic pesticides are an integral component of roadside vegetation management; however, managers must utilize effective vegetation management programs without adversely affecting adjacent plants or vegetation including agricultural crops as well as environmental and human health. An assessment of existing practices as well as evaluation of new instrumentation and technology, which may assist field personnel to avoid adverse scenarios, is needed. Specifically, the proposed research will assess current vegetation management programs and practices and their effect on air and water quality, identify best management practices to minimize potential off-target movement, and devise training material for NC DOT field personnel to understand how to prevent and identify off-target movement.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $298128
• Contract Numbers:

  FHWA/NC/2019-01

• Sponsor Organizations:

  North Carolina Department of Transportation

  Research and Development
  1549 Mail Service Center
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27699-1549
• Managing Organizations:

  North Carolina Department of Transportation

  Research and Development
  1549 Mail Service Center
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27699-1549
• Project Managers:

  Kirby, John

• Performing Organizations:

  North Carolina State University, Raleigh

  College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  Department of Soil Sciences, Campus Box 7619
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27695-7619
• Principal Investigators:

  Gannon, Travis

• Start Date: 20180801
• Expected Completion Date: 20210730
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Environmental impacts; Evaluation and assessment; Herbicides; Roadside flora; Training; Vegetation control
• Identifier Terms: North Carolina Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: North Carolina
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01677398
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: North Carolina Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: FHWA/NC/2019-01
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 2 2018 2:36PM