Maximizing Mitigation Benefits-Making a Difference with Strategic Inter-Resource Agency Planning : Year Two Technical Report

The objective of this research project is to assess current mitigation policies and practices in comparison to resource agency objectives and to identify mitigation strategies and priorities that provide greater cost-benefit potential and implementation speed through strategic inter-resource agency planning. Mitigation for various actions associated with transportation development has been part of the process for decades. Although the science, practice, and technology may have advanced during this time, many of the processes and practices are rooted in traditional rules and regulations that require mitigation. The objective for this project is to assess mitigation policies and practices as a whole, looking at both the current and future of mitigation efforts in the transportation development process. This guide presents a summary of the Integrated Ecological Framework approach for mitigation in the transportation development process.

• Record URL:
  • http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-6762-2.pdf
• Summary URL:
  • https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/search/SearchResults_ClearCriteria.aspx?q=(catalog.ID=(33146))
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Overman, John H
  • Storey, Beverly
  • Kraus, Edgar
  • Miller, Kristi
  • Walewski, John A
  • Elgart, Zachary
  • Atkinson, Sam
• Publication Date: 2014-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 72p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Environmental impacts; Interagency relations; Strategic planning; Transportation planning; Workshops
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01548546
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-15/0-6762-2, 0-6762-2
• Contract Numbers: 0-6762
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 23 2014 12:08PM