Evaluating Montana’s ITEEM: Successes and Lessons for Eco-Logical

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• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Project Development and Environmental Review ; United States. Federal Highway Administration. Surface Transportation Environment and Planning Cooperative Research Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Habitat (Ecology)
  • Ecosystems
  • Environmental design
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Data collection
  • Cooperation
  • State departments of transportation
  • Climate change
  • Integrated Transportation and Ecological Enhancements for Montana (ITEEM)
  • Program evaluation
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Montana
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  Up until the late 1990s, the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) performed environmental mitigation for transportation projects on an individual-project basis. Similar experiences at State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) nationwide have shown that this project-by-project approach to avoidance, minimization, and mitigation does not always provide the greatest environmental benefit and may do very little to promote ecosystem sustainability. ; In 2002, MDT partnered with resource and regulatory agencies to develop the Integrated Transportation and Ecological Enhancements for Montana (ITEEM) program with the aim of establishing a better approach to mitigation that addresses ecosystem sustainability. ITEEM was intended to create a multidisciplinary approach for delivering transportation projects while addressing mitigation on an ecosystem scale and to take advantage of vanishing conservation opportunities. This report documents the ITEEM process, the successes and lessons learned from ITEEM, next steps, and how ITEEM relates to FHWA's Eco-Logical program.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10090/dot_10090_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 777.63 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Transportation Resilience and Vulnerability Collection ; Volpe Center ; Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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