The European Union is at the threshold of a new development period. Hungary as a Member State of the EU was given an opportunity to frame its comprehensive development programs for the next seven years (2007-2013). One of these programs is the Transport Operative Program, which focuses on large-scale, large-volume national trans¬port infrastructure...
The purpose of this process is to promote species conservation and environmental enhancements for the OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program. Bat habitat enhancements applied in the field throughout the state will be presented as an example of these efforts. The OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program is part of the Oregon Department of Transportati...
To improve the linkage between conservation and transportation planning, emphasize the use of information, tools and methods that can be shared between the transportation, resource and regulatory agencies.
Habitat Suitability Indices were used to evaluate terrestrial wildlife habitat impacts for a newly proposed 35-mile highway that runs through five different habitat types. Typically for transportation projects, detailed impact analysis of terrestrial wildlife is limited to federally listed Threatened and Endangered species, or even State sensitive ...
Construction and maintenance of transportation systems can result in direct, indirect, cumulative, and secondary effects on ecosystems and can adversely affect the long-term viability of fish and wildlife populations (National Academy of Sciences 2005; Forman et al. 2002). Typically, mitigating adverse impacts associated with highway systems occurs...
A new approach is presented to achieve a more aggressive sustainability objective for designing transportation infrastructure and land use planning: to design BMPs to continuously mimic the natural flow regime and ensure that ecosystems downstream of development would not be adversely affected. As the land uses are changed for development of urban ...
The 2002 National Cooperative Highway Research Project found a need among many state transportation departments for the development of “standard analytic techniques for assessing wildlife ecology and transportation.” These agencies use several methods to assess wildlife activity in areas of highway construction projects. However, there have been ve...
The North American Great Lakes Basin ecosystem is globally significant. A unique, bi-national Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) between Canada and the United States is the backbone for cooperative efforts within the Basin. The Agreement establishes a basis for implementing a systems approach “to restore and maintain the physical, chemical...
WSDOT is proposing riparian restoration as an alternative to the construction of large stormwater detention facilities for the State Route 167 Extension Project. WSDOT is proposing riparian restoration as an alternative to the construction of large stormwater detention facilities for the State Route 167 Extension Project. Buildings, roads, culverts...
Pursuant to the 2005 transportation bill, Texas and four other states developed strategies to streamline transportation consultations with environmental regulatory agencies. In 2006, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposed and utilized a stepwise expedited timeline for the Bedell Street Bridge Replacement project where the Federal Hig...
