Developing a Regional Decision Support System for Houston-Galveston Region
The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) was awarded a FHWA Eco-Logical grant in 2008. H-GAC will use this funding to comply with the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), by completing a regional decision support system for the 8-county region to incorporate environmental planning with long range transportation planning. H-GAC has convened a group of resource agencies and conservation organizations to assist with the development of this model. The model will incorporate a series of metrics to provide a value that prioritizes areas with high ecological value. The results of the workgroup’s efforts will be made publicly available in several formats: on the H-GAC website (http://www.h-gac.com), through presentation and adoption by H-GAC’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Transportation Policy Council (TPC), public meetings held monthly. The representatives of the TAC and the TPC are composed of elected officials from throughout the 8-county H-GAC region. H-GAC will also incorporate review of the regional decision support system into its transportation project prioritization process and the 2040 Regional Transportation Plan.
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Corporate Authors:
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001 -
Authors:
- Boyers, Amy
- Dang, Meredith
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
- Date: 2010
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 89th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Decision support systems; Ecology; Environmental impacts; Regional planning; Strategic planning; Transportation planning
- Identifier Terms: Houston-Galveston Area Council; Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01152423
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 10-1032
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Mar 16 2010 6:13AM