Program Interrelationship between Context Sensitive Solutions and Linking Planning & NEPA
Review FHWA’s current activities in both programs, and identify opportunities to harmonize efforts.
Review FHWA’s current activities in both programs, and identify opportunities to harmonize efforts.
Research Objective: Develop a compendium of the best and innovative methods and tools for transportation planning and project development analyses. Task 1: Develop criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the…
TERI Database Administrator Notes: – Related research: Using LiDAR to detect cultural resources in a forested environment: an example from Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, USA; Julie M. Gallagher 1,…
TERI Database Administrator Notes:: Funded under NCHRP 25-25 (47) “Compendium of Best Practices for Incorporating Environmental Commitments into Transportation Project Construction Contract Documents” Background: During the planning and design phases…
Background: In July 2003, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Bureau of Environment prepared a synthesis report on Construction Vibration and Historic Buildings. The URL for accessing this report…
Purpose of research is to determine the potential effect to buried archaeological deposits from the construction and subsequent operation of transportation facilities. Because the typical method of archaeological mitigation (data…
By law, Departments of Transportation are required to control noxious weeds along highway rights-of-way (ROWs). Beginning 2000, District 4 (D4) of Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) adopted a survey design…
The management of invasive species is ineffective when the means of dissemination are unknown. Construction vehicles are likely vectors for the spread of invasive plant species. The use of construction…
TERI Database Administrator Notes: Not recommended at present time by 2009 Environmental Process Subcommittee. A similar project was advanced through NCHRP 25-25, but was dropped because the issue is no longer of…
TERI Database Administrator Notes: Not recommended at present time by 2009 Air Quality Subcommittee. With so many new areas likely to be designated nonattainment under EPA’s revised 8-hour ozone standard,…