Layout Planning of Highway Transportation Environment Monitoring Network: The Case of Xinjiang, China

Na Zhang, Xianghui Zhao, Tao Liu, Ming Lei, Cui Wang and Yikun Wang
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Na Zhang: Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering Technology in Arid & Desert Region, Xinjiang Academy of Transportation Sciences, Xinjiang 830000, China
Xianghui Zhao: Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering Technology in Arid & Desert Region, Xinjiang Academy of Transportation Sciences, Xinjiang 830000, China
Tao Liu: Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering Technology in Arid & Desert Region, Xinjiang Academy of Transportation Sciences, Xinjiang 830000, China
Ming Lei: Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Cui Wang: Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering Technology in Arid & Desert Region, Xinjiang Academy of Transportation Sciences, Xinjiang 830000, China
Yikun Wang: Urumqi Environmental Monitoring Center Station, Xinjiang 830000, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: Environmental monitoring is an important tool for environmental protection supervision and management. Environmental monitoring can help us effectively understand and master the degree of environmental pollution, and provide data support for putting forward environmental protection measures. Scientific layout and reasonable level of environmental monitoring network design is an essential cornerstone for environmental monitoring, and a significant measure to promote the industry and green sustainable development. This paper systematically analyzed its requirements of monitoring stations in the highway traffic environment monitoring network. First of all, the paper analyzed the influencing factors of regional monitoring stations in the Xinjiang transportation environment monitoring network by referring to the idea of planning the distribution points of the national transportation environment monitoring network, and determines the weight of them by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which lays a foundation for the subsequent selection and determination of environmental monitoring stations. Secondly, the advantage order of ecological monitoring objects’ importance degree was synthetically sorted by the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. Finally, the ranking results of the environmental monitoring objects were integrated to determine the number of traffic environmental monitoring stations that need to be built, and the layout of the highway traffic environment monitoring network in Xinjiang was proposed.

Keywords: environmental monitoring network; planning layout; highway transportation; fuzzy comprehensive evaluation; AHP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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