Visual Impact Assessment for Highway Projects
Visual Impact Assessment for Highway Projects, FHWA Publication No. FHWA-HI-88-054 (pdf 3.6 mb)
This field guide, which is now out of print, is available here in pdf format. It is intended to help individuals who prepare or review the coverage of visual impacts in environmental assessments or environmental impact statements for highway projects.
The following links will access a checklist and matrices for use with Visual Impact Assessments on Federal Highway Administration highway projects.
Visual Quality Discipline Report Environmental Checklist (pdf 12 mb)
Visual Quality - Matrices and Table (xls 603 kb)
Visual Quality Assessment - Concepts and Examples (pdf 13.2 mb)
PowerPoint presentation in pdf format.
For more information or to obtain copies of these forms in a different format, contact:
Sally Anderson
Roadside and Site Development Manager
PO Box 47329
Olympia, WA 98504-7329
(360) 705-7242
Fax: (360) 705-6815
E-mail: anderss@wsdot.wa.gov
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I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Visual Impact Assessment
Several common route alignment alternatives, as well as a no-build alternative (existing conditions), were analyzed for the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Visual Impact Assessment study.
The project proposes increasing traveler safety by flattening curves, avoiding rockfall areas, and providing an additional lane in each direction on I-90 between milepost (MP) 55.10 and MP 70.30.
Interstate 90 - Snoqualmie Pass East Visual Impact Assessment
Discipline Report, September 2004 (pdf 4.8 mb)
For more information on Visual Impact Assessment, contact:
Sandy Salisbury
Phone: (360) 705-7245
E-mail: SalisbS@wsdot.wa.gov
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Palouse Scenic Byway Visual Analysis
At the request of the local byway community, WSDOT undertook a scenic assessment of the proposed Palouse Country Scenic Byway in August 2002. This was the first request for a byway that contains more than one roadway. This hub and spoke system of scenic routes traverses the Palouse region of Whitman County. This report was provided to the Scenic Byway Designation Committee, which recommended the route's designation as a State Scenic Byway to the Transportation Committee. In December 2002, the Transportation Committee designated these routes as a State Scenic Byway.
Palouse Scenic Byway Application Visual Analysis Discipline Report (pdf 3.84 mb)
For more information on Scenic Byways, contact Carrie Sunstrom.
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Scenic Byway Assessments
US 97 - Pateros to the Canadian Border
State Route 97 - Pateros to the Canadian Border Scenic Byway Application Visual Analysis Discipline Report (pdf 3.7 mb)