Didura R. Road landscape-engineering systems: structure, optimization (on the example of the highway of Kyiv - Odesa).

The theoretical-and-methodological bases of the study of road landscape systems were formulated and practical results which gave the possibility to open problems of interaction of road landscape-engineering system with environment were obtained in the dissertation. This study was aimed at establishing the features of development, formation and functioning of road landscapes on the example of the road landscape-engineering system of Kyiv - Odesa. The system of roads formed over the centuries and then the road landscapes of Ukraine is not only an essential component of a single transport system, but also an integral part of the modern landscape. Road landscapes form the framework of anthropogenic landscapes of Ukraine, have important social-and-economic significance and affect human health. Together, this requires their detailed research, including from a landscape science point of view. In general, road landscapes are a complex and dynamic natural-and-economic system in the structure of which three components (subsystems) are clearly observed: road landscape-engineering and road landscape-technogenic systems, which are sometimes known under one name – road landscape-technical systems (RLES, RLTS, RLES+RLTS=RLTchS) and actually road landscapes. RLES form the main essence and defining features of road landscapes of any territory, including Ukraine. This study is dedicated to one of the most powerful highway in Ukraine that is Kyiv – Odesa formed as a result of the operation. RLES are zonal-and-azonal structures of technogenic origin and their knowledge is possible at the geotechnical level which includes knowledge of natural geography, landscape science, technology, economics, ecology, etc., as well as landscape-and-geodynamic, landscape-and-geochemical, landscape-and-ecological, geoinformative and other approaches, traditional and specific principles and methods, with the principle of combination, historicism, genetic, etc. among them.