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

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...

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Corporate Authors: Cambridge Systematics (sponsoring body.), National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Safety Planning Working Group (sponsoring body.)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, June 2011.
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Online Access:https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo56817
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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.
Item Description: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 number FHWA-SA-11-36"--Technical report documentation page.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 64 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.