Incorporating NEPA into IDOT and MPO planning processes.

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• Creators:
  El-Gohary, Nora ; El-Rayes, Khaled ; Liu, Liang ; Lv, Xuan
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration ; Illinois. Dept. of Transportation. Bureau of Materials and Physical Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental policy
  • Metropolitan planning organizations
  • State departments of transportation
  • Transportation planning
  • Construction projects
  • Project management
  • Literature reviews
  • Case studies
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-ICT-14-013 ; UILU-ENG-2014-2019
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Illinois
• Corporate Publisher:
  Illinois Center for Transportation
• Abstract:
  This report summarizes the tasks and findings of the ICT Project R27-132 Incorporating National Environmental ; Policy Act (NEPA) into IDOT and Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) planning processes, which is aimed ; at assisting IDOT in defining guidelines on how to integrate NEPA into the current IDOT and MPO planning ; processes for large-scale highway projects. The objectives of the project are to (1) provide a comprehensive ; review of literature of practices integrating NEPA into transportation planning processes in other states; (2) ; gather feedback from inter- and intra-departmental staff involved in the IDOT planning process, the MPO ; planning process, and the NEPA process to evaluate the existing practices of integrating NEPA into ; transportation planning processes for large highway projects; (3) evaluate the impact of these practices on the ; project development process; (4) identify (based on 1, 2, and 3 above) the key elements/practices that are ; needed to successfully integrate NEPA into IDOT and MPO planning processes for large-scale highway projects; ; (5) develop a Guidance Document on how to integrate NEPA into IDOT and MPO planning processes for large-scale highway projects; and provide recommendations on how to evaluate the integrated process. The ; implementation of this Guidance Document by MPOs would be voluntary. To achieve these objectives, the ; research team conducted seven main tasks: (1) literature review; (2) collecting project data for analysis as case ; studies; (3) conducting interviews for evaluating potential integration practices; (4) analyzing the results of the ; literature review, case studies, and expert interviews; (5) developing the proposed Integrated IDOT-MPO-NEPA ; Planning Process; (6) conducting interviews for evaluating the proposed integrated process; and (7) developing ; the Guidance Document
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  R27-132
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27812/dot_27812_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.44 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9602952c2d8016ad37877eb8eaac61279280a67b2615aa6609238ab1b26f2f18