Transportation & the Environment: Description and Review of Alternative Policies for Departmental Consideration

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Transportation and Environment
• Creators:
  Radin, Sari ; Crossett, Joe ; Birch, Gary ; Amegashie, Carolyn
• Corporate Creators:
  Wisconsin. Dept. of Transportation. Division of Planning and Budget
• Corporate Contributors:
  Wisconsin. Dept. of Transportation.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Impact studies
  • Habitat (Ecology)
  • Environmental policy
  • Translinks 21
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Wisconsin ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Wisconsin. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Transportation, like all human activities, affects the environment. This paper is designed to both give an overview of the environmental effects of transportation and to present alternative roles in the environmental arena available to the Department of Transportation. It begins with an overview of the issue areas covered, underlying causes of the factors affecting transportation's impact on the environment, legal constraints, environmental strategies and alternative roles under which the strategies would be applied. These topics are expanded somewhat in the remainder of the main report. Two appendices and a technical support document are available upon request to provide in depth discussion of the issue areas and environmental strategies. Appendix A covers the four issue areas; Appendix B describes the strategies under four categories: fuel/vehicle technology, transportation demand/system management, planning related, and research and education.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37917/dot_37917_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 974.54 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:29c922666558870b2dee9d2ed60c00167a3d0c4884c0788cb2bf4bc01914d49eeb401605fd5253ad1ea06c4833b706877cee8d5ddee6e3f270f03ffb224e063b