OTHER NDOT PLANNING AND DESIGN REPORTS
Maintenance Management Study
December- 2006
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project tEAM - Mark Hoversten, Principal Investigator, university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Executive summary
This study comprises one part of NDOT’s ongoing effort to understand and manager maintenance costs, tasks and commitments associated with landscape and aesthetic (L&A) improvements within the State highway system. Better understanding of maintainable L&A features and maintenance tasks will allow NDOT to improve the planning, design, construction, and operation of L&A projects.
Recommendations on Public Information for the NDOT Landscape & Aesthetics Program
April - 2008
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project tEAM - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to assist NDOT in developing public information products such as press releases, technical presentations, and professional and academic papers, and in responding to inquiries related to the Landscape and Aesthetics Program.
Safety Rest Area Study
May- 2008
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project tEAM - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office School of Architecture
Executive summary
This study proposes a new classification scheme based on the existing NDOT nomenclature. It also recommends using a better-documented planned approach to safety-rest-area development to ensure compliance with relevant statutes and to implement aspects of corridor plans related to safety rest areas.
Landscape Architecture Manual
june - 2008
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project tEAM - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office School of Architecture
Executive summary
This Manual collects comprehensive information about the Landscape and Aesthetics Program and Landscape Architecture Section into a single document. Anyone - a new NDOT Director, NDOT managers and technical experts, or a state legislator - will be able to read the Manual and:
Understand the origins andd purpose of the Landscape and Aesthetics Program
Know the Landscape Architecture Section’s responsibilities
Understand how the Section interfaces with other parts of the organization
Understand the procedures and processes related to key program elements
Find references to related information in other NDOT documents.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
The Pattern and Palette of Place Technical Report
July - 2002
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project tEAM - Mark Hoversten team university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Executive summary
As a complement to The Pattern and Palette of Place A Landscape and Aesthetics Master Plan, this Technical Report focus on technical, managerial, and interface aspects of the landscape and aesthetics program. The documents also address different audiences. Citizans’ groups, public officials, local agencies, such as regional transportation commissions of planning deparrtments, as well as NDOT staff, will use the Master Plan during corridor planning and project design. On the other hand, NDOT staff and its consultants will be the primary users of the Technical Report during detailed implementation of the program.
Landscape & Aesthetics Maintenance Cost Manual
march - 2005
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project tEAM - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Mark Elison Hoversten, FASLA, AICP, Principal Investigator, Landscape Architecture and Planning
Executive summary
This document provides planning level information so that NDOT can begin to track Landscape and Aesthetics maintenance costs in a consistent manner. The information can also be used as a starting point to establish and standardize master maintenance contracts and specification.
Purpose:
It characterizes landscape treatments so that maintenance activities and associated costs can be applied to each treatment.
It standardizes landscape maintenance tasks for each treatment type so that they can be tracked and the intensity can be described.
It provides a matrix to define every NDOT project.
It develops a formula to calculate lifecycle costs of NDOT’s Landscape and Aesthetic projects including maintenance costs.
It provides instruction for how to manage projects so that maintenance costs can be estimated in advance and tracked throughout project lifecycle.
Landscape Maintenance Cost Validation Project
December - 2006
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project Team - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Mark Elison Hoversten, FASLA, AICP, Principal Investigator, Landscape Architecture and Planning
Executive summary
The purpose of the Landscape Maintenance Cost Validation Project is to verify costs based on accurate mapping and accurate maintenance costs. Since these costs represent an ongoing financial committment, it is essential to be able to predict their magnitude. Tracking maintenance costs provides valuable information for planning and design of new construction, capacity improvements, and retrofit projects. The ability to predict maintenance costs before construction, and manage them after, gives NDOT a method to balance the desire for aesthetic effect wit the need to find cost effective landscape and aesthetic designs for all highways projects.
Landscape Maintenance Cost Validation Project
May- 2008
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project Team - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Mark Elison Hoversten, FASLA, AICP, Co-Investigator, Landscape Architecture and Planning
Executive summary
This study builds on previous reports to provide more detailed maintenance cost information and identify missing information that will be needed to fully incorporate landscape maintenance into NDOT processes. It rests recommendations made in UNLV’s 2006 Maintenance Management System Report, specifically with respect to creating an inventory for landscape and aesthetics assets, and associating specific maintenance tasks with them. In particular, this study found that while tracking maintenance costs accurately requires establishing an asset inventory, there is a balance between getting detailed enough information to understand where money is being spent, and establishing practical, in-the-field reporting methods.
Salary Survey Report
October- 2006
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project Team - Project Team - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Mark Elison Hoversten, FASLA, AICP, Coordinator, Landscape Architecture and Planning
Executive summary
The goal of this document is to aid NDOT in assessing current compensation levels and ultimately act as a useful tool in developing and establishing future compensation packages for existing and future positions within the Landscape Architecture Section of NDOT.
Maintenance of Roadside Facilities of the NDOT Maintenance Manual
May- 2008
CLIENT - The Nevada Department of TransPortation
Project Team - Project Team - university of Nevada Landscape Architecture and Planning Research Office
Mark Elison Hoversten, FASLA, AICP, Coordinator, Landscape Architecture and Planning
Executive summary
The goal of this document is to aid NDOT in assessing current compensation levels and ultimately act as a useful tool in developing and establishing future compensation packages for existing and future positions within the Landscape Architecture Section of NDOT.