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Streamlining and Integrating Right-of-Way and Utility Processes With Planning, Environmental, and Design Processes in Australia and Canada
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Accession Number:

01132437

Record Type:

Monograph

Availability:

Federal Highway Administration

Office of International Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590 United States

Abstract:

Many transportation projects require acquisition of land and accommodation of utility facilities in the right-of-way. The Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored a scanning study of Australia and Canada to learn about innovative practices for right-of-way and utility processes. The study complemented a 2000 study of European countries. The scan team identified nine priorities for U.S. implementation: promote incentive-based reimbursement for utility relocations, pursue corridor preservation strategies, use an alliance contract approach to integrate right-of-way acquisition and utility coordination, enhance cooperative relationships with property owners to facilitate timely property acquisition, develop geographic information system (GIS)-based right-of-way project and asset management systems, promote visualization techniques to communicate project impacts, promote use of multiple-level memorandum of understanding (MOU) structures, promote use of utility coordination best practices during construction, and develop a framework to establish proficiency of right-of-way and utility professionals.

Report/Paper Numbers:

FHWA-PL-09-011

Contract Numbers:

DTFH61-99-C-005

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

American Trade Initiatives

P.O. Box 8228
Alexandria, VA 22306-8228 United States

Federal Highway Administration

Office of International Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590 United States

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

444 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Transportation Research Board
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Campbell, John P
Solomon, Gerald L
Fawver, Gary C
Lorello, G Raymond
Mathis, Daniel M
Quiroga, Cesar
Rhinehart, Bimla
Ward, Bernard J
Zaharewicz, Jeffrey A
Zembillas, Nicholas M

Pagination:

84p

Publication Date:

2009-6

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Appendices (3) ; Figures (14) ; Photos (5) ; References (62) ; Tables (4)

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Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Design; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Files:

TRIS, TRB, USDOT

Created Date:

Jul 6 2009 9:46AM