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Best Practices for Mitigation of potential flood risk for transportation projects

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

The proposed study would incorporate No Adverse Impact floodplain management and mitigation into future planned transportation projects. The objective is to evaluate potential flood risk for transportation projects early in…

Comprehensive and Multi-Modal Transportation Evaluation Framework

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Develop a set of resources for comprehensive and multi-modal evaluation of transportation projects, similar to the following: DfT (2006), Transport Analysis Guidance, Integrated Transport Economics and Appraisal, Department for Transport…

Template for a Categorical Finding for Particulate Matter

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Federal and state objectives for streamlining project development may be supported in general by the development and implementation of programmatic agreements (PAs) and, where federal requirements for transportation conformity apply,…

Using experiments and long term data for optimal wetland mitigation

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Wetlands are among the world’s most ecologically productive and economically important environments, but they are also one of the world’s most endangered environments. Approximately 53% of wetlands in the lower…

The effects of pile driving on the Atlantic Shortnose Strugeon

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

With the 2012 listing of the Atlantic Shortnose Sturgeon to the threatened and endangered species list the Virginia Department of Transportation has had to produce two noise analyses for a…

Guidance for Transportation Modelers for Generating Traffic and Activity Data for Project-Level Air Quality Analyses

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

The recently completed NCHRP 08-83 study (see excerpt below) on “Analytical Travel Forecasting Approaches for Project-Level Planning and Design” addressed project-level transportation modeling in detail but only addressed air quality…

Multi-pollutant benefits of on-road motor vehicle control strategies

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

While there are a number of published studies that provide information to state and local agencies about the potential emission reduction benefits of control strategies that are designed to reduce…

Highway runoff characterization and assessment through sediment fingerprinting

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Runoff associated with highways and roads has been identified as a major source of fine sediment entering water bodies. Sediment removal methods include sediment traps, hydrodynamic and filtration devices, sediment…

Section 106 Delegations to State DOTs Through Programmatic Agreements

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 USC §306108) requires that Federal agencies take into account the effects of their undertakings on properties eligible for listing…

Improving Vehicle Activity Data for Project Level Emission Analysis of Specific Transportation Facilities (Short-listed at 2015 TRB)

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Note: This research idea was short-listed at the 2015 TRB meeting of the Project-Level Subcommittee of the Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20). The broader research problem to be addressed…

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