TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 304: Technologies to Improve Consideration of Environmental Concerns in Transportation Decisions describes eight technologies that may be used by transportation agencies to help during consideration of environmental concerns in transportation decisions. This digest describes eight technologies that can be used by transportation agencies to improve the consideration of environmental concerns in transportation decisions (1). These technologies have been applied by agencies, using tools developed by the agencies themselves or others, to support their business processes. The digest presents the results of work conducted in the second, final phase of NCHRP Project 25-22, "Technologies to Improve Consideration of Environmental Concerns in Transportation Decisions." The objective of that project was to identify, critique, and showcase current and emerging technologies that support the integration of environmental considerations into transportation planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operations. The underlying purpose of the research is to accelerate innovation by encouraging application of such technologies by transportation agencies. By effectively applying these technologies, departments of transportation (DOTs) can reduce project development time, reduce costs, and enhance environmental quality, by improving the ability to implement transportation decisions, reducing the number of projects in litigation, reducing paperwork, increasing public understanding of the process, and increasing public trust.

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Technologies to Improve Consideration of Environmental Concerns in Transportation Decisions