The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has announced the renewal of its Section 6004 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which it assumed FHWA’s responsibility for determining whether certain transportation projects may be categorically excluded from the National Environmental Policy Act review process. The MOU streamlines the federal environmental review process for categorically excluded transportation projects [...]
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National Safe Routes to School
The National Center for Safe Routes to School has released a new report that provides baseline results on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) travel data from across the United States. The report summarizes data from parent surveys and student travel tallies collected by local SRTS programs from April 2007 to May 2009. The report finds [...]
WSDOT Stewardship Potential on Scenic Recreational Highways
The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a technical report on a study to develop a resource planning index for use in benchmarking and tracking the stewardship performance of investments associated with the state’s Scenic and Recreational Highway system. The study conducted a geographic information system (GIS) analysis to identify a unique index value [...]
