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Environmental streamlining and environmental stewardship represent two of the fastest-growing forces in the transportation field. Environmental stewardship in transportation, in its most fundamental terms, is the effective management and protection of the natural and human environment through informed decision making about transportation projects and programs. Environmental streamlining is the term given to efforts, spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, to improve transportation project delivery and enhance environmental protection by means of improved interagency coordination. Among the commonalties between environmental stewardship and environmental streamlining are the need for more information on existing practices, the development of innovative tools for improving practices, improvements in data resources and data analysis techniques, and the establishment of metrics for measuring results. Because both topics involve shaping human behavior, there also is a demand for techniques for creating and managing cultural change in state and federal agencies involved in transportation. Effective research in each of these areas is critical to the future success of environmental streamlining and environmental stewardship in transportation.

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English

p. 99-106

2002

Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings

Environmental Research Needs in Transportation

030907715X

References

Conferences; Coordination; Decision making; Environmental protection; Environmental streamlining; Interagency relations; Research; Strategic planning

Environmental stewardship

Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General)

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• AIR QUALITY: RESOURCE PAPER
• COMMUNITY IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT: RESOURCE PAPER
• CONTEXT-SENSITIVE DESIGN, INCLUDING AESTHETICS AND VISUAL QUALITY: RESOURCE PAPER
• CULTURAL RESOURCES: RESOURCE PAPER
• ENERGY AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS: RESOURCE PAPER
• ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: RESOURCE PAPER
• INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING: RESOURCE PAPER
• LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION: RESOURCE PAPER
• NOISE: RESOURCE PAPER
• SUSTAINABILITY, INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSE AND EFFECTS: RESOURCE PAPER
• TRANSPORTATION, HUMAN HEALTH, AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: RESOURCE PAPER
• WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: RECYCLING, WASTE REDUCTION, POLLUTION PREVENTION, BROWNFIELDS: RESOURCE PAPER
• WATER QUALITY AND HYDROLOGY: RESOURCE PAPER
• WETLANDS, WILDLIFE, AND ECOSYSTEMS: RESOURCE PAPER