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Suggested Citation:"Contents." Transportation Research Board. 2014. Application of Geospatial Ecological Tools and Data in the Planning and Programming Phases of Delivering New Highway Capacity: Proof of Concept—East-West Gateway Council of Governments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/22309.
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Contents 1 Executive Summary 3 CHAPTER 1 Introduction 3 Project Context 4 Proof of Concept Goals 4 Report Structure 5 CHAPTER 2 Ecological Initiative Tool Development and Application 5 Background on Ecological Initiative Tool Development 9 Proof of Concept Collaboration Methods 11 CHAPTER 3 Data and Methods of Assessment of Ecological Initiative Tool 12 Initial Feedback on Ecological Initiative Geospatial Tool 12 Regulatory and Resource Agency Feedback 14 Data Assessment Meeting 14 Summary of Bottlenecks and Opportunities 17 Proposed Enhancement of Ecological Initiative Geospatial Tool 18 Transferability of the Ecological Initiative Geospatial Tool 20 CHAPTER 4 Enhancements to Ecological Initiative Geospatial Tool 21 Data Enhancements 25 Results of Enhanced Tool Applied to Pilot Areas 31 Successes and Challenges 32 Acceptability of the Data Refinements 35 CHAPTER 5 Beta Test of the C40A Tool: Eco-Plan 35 Eco-Plan 36 Eco-Plan Advanced 37 Eco-Plan Advanced Pilot Area Test 38 Transferability of Eco-Plan 40 CHAPTER 6 Transferability of the Ecological Initiative Process and Tool 41 Parallels of Ecological Initiative Tool and Eco-Plan 43 CHAPTER 7 Conclusions

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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C40B has released a report that explores the application of a geospatial tool to support integrated ecological planning at regional and local levels.

The C40B project also produced two other reports, one report related to ecological planning for the California US-101 highway and an additional proof of concept report about the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority.

The related C40A project produced a report that documents the development of an integrated, geospatial ecological screening tool for early transportation planning to help inform the environmental review process.

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