White Paper on Best Practices for Invasive Weed Control
There is a need prepare a white paper to identify practical strategies and methods for stopping/reversing the extension of invasive weeds along roadsides.
Roadside Seed Mixtures and Successful Seeding Practices
At least one seed mixture would be created for each vegetative zone. In addition, best practices for establishment and maintenance of these seed mixtures would be established.
Best Practices Review of Parking Management Strategies
TERI Administrator Note (Feb 2009) – Research completed: Parking Management: Strategies for More Efficient Use of Parking Resource, Litman, Todd; (2008) Current transportation and land use planning practices result in…
Compilation of “Visualization” Techniques and Examples to Improve the Effectiveness of NEPA Processes and Documents – Delivered in DVD Format and Via Website Links and Downloads
The research would solicit, compile, analyze, screen, sort, present, and then distribute effective figures, tables, graphics, visual simulations, video, and other visualization examples for nationwide use and adaptation by practitioners.…
Beneficial Reuses of Scrap Tires in the Field of Transportation
TERI Database Administrator Notes: Note recommended at present time by 2009 Environmental Process Subcommittee. Transportation projects may have great potentials of consuming a considerable portion of scrap tires if economic…
Best Management Practices for Protecting Water Resources from Impacts From Adjacent Unpaved Roads
The study would evaluate the effectiveness of current practices in road design, construction, maintenance and closure.
Safety Project on the Environmental Effects of Dust Suppressant Chemicals on Unpaved Roads
TERI Administrator Note (Feb 2009) – Related Research: Investigation of Water Runoff and Leaching Impacts from Dust Suppressants, Fred Hall, US Environmental Protection Agency, 2008 The majority of research on…
Transportation Environmental Analysis Electronic Index
TERI Database Administrator Notes: Not recommended at present time by 2009 Environmental Process Subcommittee. The environmental process is complex. Practitioners lack easy access to guidance information needed to conduct transportation…
Wireless Smart Sound Sensor Network-Based Highway and Construction Noise Measurement and Monitoring
TERI Administrator Note (Added December 2008) – Project sponsored by Ohio DOT is underway (see details below) Develop a turn-key, wireless, low cost sensor system for autonomous monitoring, measuring, and…
Rapid Assessment Technique to Assess the Effects of Transportation Development on Area-wide Water and Ecological Resources
Since the mid 1990s, the concept of watershed evaluation and assessment has come to the forefront of land use planning and related decision making. Faced by these issues, the DOTs…