Environmental activities in transportation are heavily founded in duly-established law and regulation. Law and regulation is augmented by defined requirements of environmental agreements/contracts and filtered through agency policies. Environmental activities,…
This study would develop recommendations for future research topics for air quality, climate change and energy, i.e., a research roadmap. Recommendations would be developed to cover all available NCHRP funding…
NCHRP 25-25 Task 104 recently completed updates to templates for a programmatic agreement (PA) for project-level air quality analyses for carbon monoxide (CO). The templates were designed to be customized…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the Federal Highway Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and Several National Cooperative Research Program studies use the USEPA definition of a synoptic storm event…
The scope of this project would be aimed toward gathering data on Desert Tortoise populations in the southern portion of the Owens Valley in California. As the Owens Valley represents…
The objective is to develop a consistent methodology for analyzing noise and vibration impacts on different terrestrial species. Develop standard metrics and procedures for the DOTs to conduct noise analyses…
BACKGROUND There is a need to investigate the effects of artificial light on a growing list of bats, birds, insects, fish, and other members of the environmental community which may…
Air pollution across the nation has improved significantly over the past 20 years. Nonetheless, in highly populated area, sensitive populations living adjacent to high volume roadways are exposed to air…