Project Delivery/Streamlining

U.S. Department of Transportation

• Congestion Relief
  • National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network (March 2007)

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Federal Highway Administration

• Delegation of Environmental Responsibilities
  • Delegation of Federal Environmental Responsibilities for Highway Projects (April 2002
• Issue Resolution
  • Collaborative Problem Solving: Better and Streamlined Outcomes for All (November 2006)
• Public-Private Partnerships
  • FHWA Manual for Using PPPs on Highway Projects (November 2005)
  • Synthesis of Public-Private Partnership Projects for Roads, Bridges & Tunnels from Around the World - 1985-2004 (August 2005)
  • Report To Congress On Public-Private Partnerships (December 2004)
• Other Streamlining Reports and Resources
  • State Transportation Liaison Funded Positions Study (October 2009)
  • Streamlining and Integrating Right-of-Way and Utility Processes With Planning, Environmental, and Design Processes in Australia and Canada (June 2009)
  • Strategies and Approaches for Effectively Moving Complex Environmental Documents Through the EIS Process - A Peer Exchange Report (January 2009)
  • Meeting Environmental Requirements After A Bridge Collapse (August 2008)
  • Gallup Surveys: Implementing Performance Measurement in Environmental Streamlining 
  • Domestic Scan Tour: Environmental Commitment Implementation (March 2003)
  • Successful Efforts in Environmental Streamlining--Eight Case Studies in Project Development (2003)
  • National Environmental Streamlining Interagency Workshop (November 2000)
• Progress Reports on Streamlining Activities
  • Linking Planning and NEPA Progress Report (Fiscal Year 2006, Quarters 2 and 3)
  • Annual Report to the President on E.O. 13274, Environmental Stewardship and Transportation Infrastructure Project Reviews (December 2004)
  • Report to Congress (April 2003) - Federal Highway Administration Environmental Streamlining Activities During 2002: Executive Summary and link to report.
  • Report to Congress (February 2002) - Highway and Transit Environmental Streamlining Progress Summary: Executive Summary.
• Reports on Project Delivery Time Frames
  • NEPA Baseline Study for Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Streamlining - Phase II (2003)
  • NEPA Baseline Study for Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Streamlining (2000)
• Linking Planning and NEPA
  • SAFETEA-LU Planning Provisions Workshop (May 2006)
  • Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Infrastructure Projects (April 2006)
  • FHWA/FTA Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program, Peer Roundtable Report –Linking Planning and NEPA (June 7, 2005)
  • Executive Order 13274 Integrated Planning Work Group Baseline Report and Preliminary Gap Analysis (Deliberative Draft) (March 15, 2005)
  • Planning/NEPA Linkage Peer-to-Peer Exchange (May 2001)
• Congestion Relief
  • Trends and Advanced Strategies for Congestion Mitigation (September 1, 2005) (FHWA)
  • Traffic Congestion and Reliability: Linking Solutions to Problems (July 19, 2004) (FHWA)
• Innovative Financing
  • Mainstreaming Pricing Alternatives in the Project Development Process 
  • Congestion Pricing: A Primer

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GAO Reports

• Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions. GAO-08-512R [PDF 2.79mb] April 25, 2008
• Highway Infrastructure: Perceptions of Stakeholders on Approaches to Reduce Highway Project Completion Time. GAO-03-398 [PDF 305kb] April 9, 2003 Highlights [PDF 71kb], Accessible Text, Abstract
• Highway Infrastructure: Stakeholders' Views on Time to Conduct Environmental Reviews of Highway Projects. GAO-03-534 [PDF 676kb] May 23, 2003 Highlights [PDF 79kb], Accessible Text, Abstract
• Highway Infrastructure: FHWA Has Acted to Disclose the Limitations of Its Environmental Review Analysis. GAO-03-338R [PDF 89kb] January 16, 2003 Abstract
• Highway Infrastructure: Preliminary Information on the Timely Completion of Highway Construction Projects. GAO-02-1067T [PDF 508kb] September 19, 2002 Accessible Text, Abstract
  

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Executive Order 13274 Work Group

• Executive Order 13274 Purpose and Need Work Group Baseline Report (Revised Draft) (March 15, 2005)
• Executive Order 13274 Indirect and Cumulative Impacts Work Group Baseline Report (Draft) (March 15, 2005)
• Executive Order 13274 Integrated Planning Work Group Baseline Report and Preliminary Gap Analysis (Deliberative Draft) (March 15, 2005)

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Colorado DOT

• Linking Planning and NEPA
  • Guidance Document

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Oregon DOT

• An Evaluation of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Environmental Streamlining Efforts: A Focus on CETAS (November 14, 2005)

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• Resource Agency Funding
  • DOT-Funded Positions and Other Support to Resource and Regulatory Agencies, Tribes, and Non-Governmental Organizations for Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining Initiatives (May 2005)

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Linking Planning and NEPA

• Improved Linkage Between Transportation Systems Planning and NEPA (NCHRP Project 8-36, Task 48) (January 2006)
• Consideration of Environmental Factors in Transportation Systems Planning (NCHRP Report 541) (August 2005)

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General

• Expedited Planning and Environmental Review of Highway Projects, Strategic Highway Research Program 2, Report S2-C19-RR-1 (July 2012). This report provides strategies for expedited planning and environmental review of highway projects. The report documents 16 common constraints on project delivery along with 24 separate strategies addressing them.
• NCHRP Synthesis 414: Effective Delivery of Small-Scale Federal-Aid Projects, NCHRP Project 20-05, Topic 41-02 (May 2011). The report identifies streamlined methods for state departments of transportation to meet federal funding requirements for small-scale highway projects.
• NCHRP Legal Research Digest 54: Practice under the Environmental Provisions of SAFETEA-LU, NCHRP Project 20-6 (December 2010). The report summarizes the statutory provisions, guidance, rulemakings, and judicial decisions interpreting the environmental provisions of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) the Act. The report also discusses the responses of 27 state DOTs to a survey regarding their experience with SAFETEA-LU. The DOTs responding to the survey were generally favorable regarding the law's requirements, but in particular approved of the 180-day statute of limitations and the de minimis provisions added to Section 4(f).
• NCHRP Report 662, Accelerating Transportation Project and Program Delivery: Conception to Completion, NCHRP 20-73 (August 2010)
• Improving Environmental Cost Estimates: Final Report; Guide to Estimating Environmental Costs, NCHRP 25-25, Task 39 (October 2008)
• NCHRP Research Results Digest 317: Prototype Software for an Environmental Information Management and Decision Support System - final report for NCHRP Project 25-23(2) and a user’s guide for the prototype software. (March 2007)
• NCHRP Web-Only Document 103: Final Report for NCHRP Research Results Digest 317 
• Research Results Digest 304: Technologies To Improve Consideration of Environmental Concerns in Transportation Decisions, NCHRP Project 25-22 (June 2006)
• Research Results Digest 300, Outcomes of the Environmental Streamlining Projects, NCHRP Project 25-24 (November 2005)
• NCHRP Web-Only Document 79: Monitoring, Analyzing, and Reporting on the Environmental Streamlining Pilot Projects, NCHRP Project 25-24 (November 2005)
• Environmental Stewardship Practices, Procedures, and Policies for Highway Construction and Maintenance, NCHRP Project 25‑25 (04) (September 2004)
• Expediting the Transportation Planning and Project Development Process to Meet Fast Paced Customer Requirements (August 2003), NCHRP Project 8-36, Task 21 (August 2003) 

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Public-Private Partnerships

• Public-Private Partnerships and the Development of Transport Infrastructure: Trends on Both Sides of the Atlantic. Benjamin G. Perez, AICP, Senior Professional Associate PB Consult Inc. with James W. March,  U.S. Federal Highway Administration Office of Policy and Governmental Affairs (August 2006)        
• SAFETEA-LU Promotes Private Investment in Transportation (August 2005)
• Current Practices in Public-Private Partnerships for Highway Projects (July 2005)
  Innovative Financing

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Congestion Relief

• Urban Mobility Report Texas Transportation Institute

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