Integrating road safety into NEPA analysis a primer for safety and environmental professionals, report.

Integrating road safety into NEPA analysis a primer for safety and environmental professionals, report.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, June 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 64 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (United States) Environmental policy -- United States. Traffic safety -- Environmental aspects -- United States. Environmental policy. United States.
Format:	E-Resource U.S. Federal Government Document Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10297502

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Varying Form of Title:	Integrating road safety into NEPA analysis : a practitioner's primer Primer for safety and environmental professionals
Other authors / contributors:	United States. Federal Highway Administration, issuing body. Cambridge Systematics, sponsoring body. National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Safety Planning Working Group, sponsoring body.
Notes:	Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 16, 2015). "June 2011." "Report date: July 2011"--Technical report document page. "Performing organization ... Cambridge Systematics, Inc."--Technical report documentation page. "U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration with support from Transportation Safety Planning Working Group." "Report no. FHWA-SA-11-36"--Technical report documentation page. Includes bibliographical references. DTFH61-05-D-00026-T-08-004
Summary:	This primer presents an introduction to the topic of addressing safety as part of the environment analysis process, as directed by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It presents practitioners with basic concepts for including meaningful, quantitative analysis of project safety issues and for taking advantage of the latest tools, research, and techniques for improving road safety within a project scope. The primer highlights the opportunity and benefits of linking safety planning to the environmental analysis at every stage of the NEPA process.
GPO item no.:	0982-G-94 (online)
Govt.docs classification:	TD 2.30/13:11-36

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
NEPA overview and levels of documentation
Considering safety before the NEPA process
Public and stakeholder outreach
Purpose and need statements
Alternatives analysis
Defining the affected environment
Analysis of environmental impacts and mitigation
Resources
Case studies.