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https://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/170236.aspx

Significant efforts have promoted, applied, and demonstrated the integrated, collaborative approach to transportation planning and project development described in the Federal Highway Administration publication, Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Infrastructure Projects. To advance this approach, the Transportation Research Board’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity research developed the Integrated Ecological Framework (IEF), a peer-reviewed technical guide to implementing Eco-Logical, step by step. The IEF draws on approaches to conservation assessment and planning to provide transportation planners and resource specialists with a standardized, science-based approach to identifying ecological priorities in decision making. This article describes the IEF.

English

pp 24-25

2013-11

TR News

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Conservation; Construction projects; Decision making; Development; Ecology; Highways; Programming (Planning); Transportation planning

Integrated Ecological Framework; Strategic Highway Research Program 2; U.S. Federal Highway Administration

Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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