Since 1999, the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project (I-90 project) of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) team has worked with dozens of government agencies and nongovernmental groups to develop a range of potential solutions to meet project needs and mitigate the project's potential adverse impacts on the Central Cascades’ ecosystem and the state's economy. WSDOT created a multiagency interdisciplinary team (IDT) as an advisory body to recommend a preferred alternative that incorporated relevant science and the concerns of agency stakeholders. The project's original IDT included eight primary and advisory agencies and was later expanded to include 12 participating agencies. The IDT went on to form the mitigation development team (MDT), a technical advisory subcommittee consisting of hydrologists and biologists from different agencies, to identify locations and develop performance criteria for investments in ecological connectivity. In addition to the IDT and the MDT, formal technical committees were formed to assist in planning and permitting challenges for final designs on wetlands mitigation, wildlife monitoring, and stormwater. WSDOT has also established innovative partnerships with university researchers and conservation groups to help establish citizen awareness, wildlife monitoring, and targeted habitat acquisitions. Relationships with transportation-based organizations and businesses were formed to gain insight into the requirements of highway users. WSDOT's innovative approach to developing partnerships to understand and meet landscape-scale, watershed-based objectives on the I-90 project provides a scalable model for the integration of context-sensitive solutions for future WSDOT and other state departments of transportation projects.


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    Titel :

    Environmental Analysis in Transportation


    Untertitel :

    Washington State's Ecological Application of Collaborative Approach to Identify a Preferred Alternative and Mitigation Strategy for I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record


    Beteiligte:
    Smith, Jason (Autor:in) / Sullivan, Amanda (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2010-01-01




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch