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Planning & Environment Linkages

Key Resources

Listed below are research, documents and reports pertinent to environmental considerations in planning.  If you would like to suggest additional research, documents, or reports on this topic, please submit a short description to AASHTO (including any pertinent links) on the Share Info with AASHTO form.

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

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• FHWA Resources
  • 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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• Transportation Research Board/NCHRP
  • 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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