Evaluation and Mitigation of Environmental Impacts Prior to Project Selection

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Colorado. Department of Transportation. Applied Research & Innovations Branch
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental justice
  • Environmental impacts
  • Corridors
  • Geographic information systems
  • Data collection
  • Compliance
  • Long range planning
  • Transportation planning
  • environmental mitigation
  • corridor approach (CA)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CDOT-2007-6
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Colorado
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Colorado Department of Transportation. Applied Research & Innovations Branch
• Description:
  This study demonstrates that environmental data collected on a corridor-wide scale is an excellent resource for project-specific planning as well as mitigation planning. The detailed environmental data banks and resource maps that can be created through a corridor approach (CA) provide valuable tools for long-range transportation planning, and expand CDOT's opportunity to exercise its environmental stewardship roles. The study also indicates that aerial photos provide many advantages when used as a base map and that digital formats are an efficient way to store access data. Finally, the CA provides a convenient framework for setting data collection standards that will improve CDOT's environmental compliance process.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  32-10
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/93068/dot_93068_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 457.99 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:efa2188788eefe03baed5ecaffea087051d110b8e67a8e4cb390206002dfc9b385e352678b2825305889e97863b1b65f45ad7417a9a3b808ffb56bb30de49f1c