CMAQ Guidance Released
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released guidance on the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) under the Safe, Accountable. Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). This Interim Guidance replaces the April 1999 guidance. The guidance discusses the changes to the CMAQ program under SAFETEA-LU. Notable changes to the CMAQ program include the statutory direction to give priority consideration to cost-effective diesel emission and congestion reduction projects, and highlighted eligibility for non-road diesel retrofit projects. The guidance includes five appendices including one on the Comparative Cost Effectiveness of Potential CMAQ Projects and one on Considerations for Diesel Retrofit projects. For more information see:
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cmaq06gm.htm
FHWA Website: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Project Development
http://environment.fhwa.dot.gov/projdev/index.asp |
Transportation Planning Council Awards
General Documents and Texts
Transportation Planning and Land Use
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Transportation Demand Management
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Data in the Transportation Planning
Transportation Safety Planning
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Citizen Participation in the Transportation Planning Process |
Multi-Pollutant Emissions Benefits of Transportation Strategies
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that provides a compendium of traditional and innovative transportation-related control strategies for reducing transportation-related emissions. For each type of strategy, the report identifies effects on the following seven pollutants: carbon monoxide, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, sulfur oxides, and ammonia. Strategies included are those that can be implemented by policy makers at a state or local level. For each strategy, the document reports on the direction of emissions impacts (increase, decrease, neutral or uncertain) that typically are expected for each pollutant. It also includes calculations of emissions impacts for sample projects, based on real project examples, and identifies U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidance documents that should be referenced and sample methodologies for calculating impacts.
Publication Number: FHWA-HEP-07-004
Prepared for: Federal Highway Administration
Washington, DC 20590
Submitted by: ICF International With support from Eric Schreffler, ESTC
Date: November 14, 2006
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/conformity/mpe_benefits/index.htm
Environmental Justice in Transportation Planning
Executive Order 12898 -Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations, February 11, 1994; and Executive Order 12948, Amendment to Executive Order No.
12898, January 30, 1995.
FHWA has issued policy guidance on addressing environmental justice in transportation planning.
(Policy Guidance Concerning Application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Metropolitan and Statewide
Planning, Federal Register, May 19, 2000.) The FHWA Office of Environment and Planning web site contains other recent FHWA memoranda on addressing environmental justice.
FHWA Environmental Justice Website
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/ej2.htm
Transportation and Air Quality: Selected Facts and Figures (Updated 5/31/2006)
Publication No. FHWA-HEP-05-045
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/aqfactbk/index.htm
FHWA Planning and Environmental Linkages Website
www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/integ/index.asp
NCHRP 541: Consideration of Environmental Factors in Transportation Systems and Environmental Planning
Source: TRB, NCHRP, 2005
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_541.pdf
NCHRP 8-36 (48): Improved Linkage between Transportation Systems Planning and NEPA (2006) explains the benefits of and methods for linking planning and NEPA processes, particularly in the context of SAFETEA-LU requirements. It details how to integrate these processes and overcome potential barriers.
www.transportation.org/sites/planning/docs/NCHRP%208-36%2848%29%20Final%20Report.pdf |
