Planning Transportation Projects for Better Environmental Outcomes: A New Institutional Framework and Tools Makes it Easier

Ecosystem approaches to environmental conservation are becoming more widely accepted and increasingly practiced by federal, state, and local resource agencies. From a highway perspective, the Federal Highway Administration document Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Infrastructure Projects (2006) provides a conceptual groundwork for integrated conservation plans and mitigation activities that transcend individual agency jurisdictional boundaries and encourages an outcome-based ecosystem approach to conservation. However, Eco-Logical stops short of providing the institutional framework and tools to implement the principles. This project brief summarizes Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) reports An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning: Volumes 1 and 2, which are intended to provide the structure and tools needed to implement the ecological approach.

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  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/shrp2/SHRP2_PB_C06_2013-05.pdf
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• Publication Date: 2013-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 4p
• Serial:
  • SHRP 2 Program Brief
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conservation; Ecosystems; Environmental protection; Highway planning; Institutional issues
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01483004
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 3 2013 1:49PM