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Title: PRESERVING TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS
Accession Number: 00732523
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) mandates that states and metropolitan planning organizations consider the preservation of rights-of-way for future transportation projects in the development of transportation plans and programs. Such preservation is intended to promote more consistent and less costly development of transportation facilities; minimize their environmental, social, and economic effects; reduce the number of displacements resulting from their implementation; and give departments of transportation and transit agencies the opportunity to develop projects in a deliberative fashion. However, efforts to obtain control of or otherwise protect the rights-of-way for planned transportation facilities have historically been too informal and uncoordinated to realize these benefits. Despite federal support of corridor preservation, the performance of many states in this area has been inconsistent. This performance has been attributed to budgetary issues and regulatory constraints. Advance fee-simple land acquisition, a traditional corridor-preservation technique, has posed a variety of problems. Other techniques, particularly those raising regulatory takings issues, have presented various challenges. However, several recent federally sponsored pilot projects are demonstrating that states can successfully pursue corridor preservation. This article continues with an examination of the following: national attention to corridor preservation; preservation techniques; reservation vs. regulatory taking; pilot corridor preservation projects; and recommitting to corridor preservation.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Maiorana, J JPagination: p. 18-21
Publication Date: 1996-11
Serial: Features: Figures
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Feb 28 1997 12:00AM
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