Planning & Environment Linkages

• AASHTO Practitioner’s Handbook #10: Using the Transportation Planning Process to Support the NEPA Process (February 2008)

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• Planning and Environment Linkages Questions and Answers (Nov. 2016)
• FHWA Planning and Environment Linkages Website
• FHWA Every Day Counts/Planning & Environment Linkages Tools including FHWA Planning and Environment Linkages Questionnaire, PEL Frequently Asked Questions, States Using PEL and PEL Equivalents
• Statewide Transportation Planning; Metropolitan Transportation Planning; Final Rule (Feb. 2007), Appendix A, incorporated as part of this regulatory notice, provides additional, nonbinding guidance to further explain the linkages between the transportation planning and project development/NEPA processes.
• FHWA Guidance on Using Corridor and Subarea Planning to Inform NEPA (2011)
• FHWA Implementing Eco-Logical Website and related resources including: Agencies Implementing the Eco-Logical Approach; Technical Assistance Activities; Technical Assistance; Eco-Logical at Meetings and Conferences; Library; Eco-Logical Report; Grant Program; Webinar Series
• FHWA PlanWorks Decision Support Tool: a web resource that supports collaborative decision-making in transportation planning and project development, built around key decision points in long-range planning, programming, corridor planning, and environmental review.

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• NCHRP Reports:
  
  • NCHRP Report 661: A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning, NCHRP Project 8-58 (July 2010)
  • NCHRP 8-36 (48): Improved Linkage Between Transportation Systems Planning and NEPA (January 2006)
  • NCHRP Report 541: Consideration of Environmental Factors in Transportation Planning, NCHRP Project 8-38 (2005)
• Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2)
  
  • An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning, Volume 1
  • An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning, Volume 2
  • Practitioner’s Guide to the Integrated Ecological Framework, Volume 3
  • Manager’s Guide to the Integrated Ecological Framework, Volume 4
  • Integrated Eco-Logical Framework Outreach Project
  • Expedited Planning and Environmental Review of Highway Projects

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