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Integration of Conservation Planning, Highway Planning, and Environmental Review
Welcome to the hub of SHRP 2 products for the integration of conservation planning, highway planning, and environmental review. The SHRP 2 Capacity program is developing tools and resources for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community requirements into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capacity. The products related to integrating conservation planning, highway planning, and environmental review are collected on this page.
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Tools (web tools, model agreements, guides)
Reports
Webinars
Links to Other Capacity Product Pages
Business Model
TBA
Model Program Agreements
TBA
Guidelines Document for Integrating Conservation, Planning, and Environmental Permitting into an Ecosystem Approach
TBA
Web-based Templates for Ecological Assessments and Ecosystem Services Crediting
TBA
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Recorded TRB Webinar: Expedited Planning and Environmental Review of Highway Projects
Posted May 6, 2011
On May 4, 2011, TRB held a webinar that identified, described, and
evaluated effective tools and techniques for practitioners and decision
makers to expedite the planning and environmental review of
transportation projects. SHRP 2 assembled tools and practices to
collaborate on highway projects in Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP),
which is currently in its beta test phase. TCAPP provides a
“Collaboration Assessment” tool that pinpoints areas where the
individual process or team dynamics are not supportive of collaboration
and provides some strategies to address those issues. Projects can be
delayed or expedited in every phase of delivery, and TCAPP provides
information that can be used to understand and implement specific
strategies for expediting project delivery. This effort was specifically
directed to evaluate the earlier phases of project delivery that lead
up to final design and construction. Nearly all of the strategies
described are implemented during the planning, National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA), and/or permitting phases. For more details, view a summary of this webinar. Email Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu to receive a link to the recording of this session. There is no fee for employees of TRB sponsors to receive this recording. Others must pay $89.00 to receive a link to view this recorded session.
Recorded SHRP 2 Webinars: Toward a Common Ecological Framework
Part 1: Watershed Approaches (July 29, 2010)
Part 2: Habitat, Species, and Connectivity (July 30, 2010)
Posted August 2, 2010
SHRP 2 conducted two back-to-back webinars on July 29 and July 30, 2010, that featured SHRP 2 work in progress on broad-scale ecological approaches to conservation design and mitigation of highway impacts and resultant conservation; related presentations by the US Army Corps of Engineers on watershed planning and 404 permitting; and presentations by US Fish and Wildlife Service and state natural resource agencies on integrating planning for species recovery and strategic habitat conservation in the Section 7 consultation process. This work embodies watershed, landscape, and habitat approaches to conservation and emphasizes planning-level environmental analysis and decision making to better focus and leverage investments for wetlands, species, habitats, and water quality improvement. Questions related to RFP C21 (released July 27) for pilot testing SHRP 2 ecological work were also addressed. Recordings of the webinars and PDFs of the slides are available for Part 1: Watershed Approaches (July 29, 2010) at and Part 2: Habitat, Species, and Connectivity (July 30, 2010).
Recorded SHRP 2 Webinar: Pilot Tests of the Ecological Approach to Mitigation of Environmental Impacts (Project C21)
Posted April 16, 2010
SHRP 2 conducted a web briefing or “webinar” on Thursday, April 15, 2010 that explored new tools designed to help implement integrated conservation plans and mitigation activities. A project to pilot test these new tools will be let by SHRP 2 in July, and the webinar also examined ways in which these new tools might be pilot tested, as a means to help researchers decide if they want to propose to conduct the pilot testing. A recording of the Webinar is available in Windows Media Player format, and the slides are available as a PDF.
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Links to Other Capacity Product Pages
The SHRP 2 Capacity program is also developing other products. Click on a product topic to learn about those products and their current status:
Collaborative Decision Making • Economic Impact Analysis • Advanced Modeling and Networks • Operations to Improve Capacity and Reliability • Greenhouse Gases • Public/Private Partnerships • Smart Growth
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