PEL and Corridor Planning

State of the Practice Review of Planning and Environment Linkages Implementation in Corridor Planning

July 2014

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Appendix C: Summary of Results

PEL Elements Included in Corridor Plans Reviewed

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Horizontal bar chart listing and comparing PEL elements included in Corridor Plans Reviewed. An elements's bar illustrates what percentage of Corridor Plans Reviewed included that element.

• Mention of missing elements: 2%
• Statement of transportation problem: 79%
• Purpose & Need: 97%
• Travel corridor: 94%
• Environmental setting: 57%
• Transportation Modes: 85%
• Evaluation of alternatives: 87%
• Funding sources, challenges, and soultions: 65%
• Consultation with environmental agencies: 28%
• Documented interaction with the public: 84%
• Multidisciplinary planning team: 45%
• Future land use: 66%
• Potential environmental impacts: 64%
• Programmatic mitigation for potential impacts: 22%
• NEPA requirements and planning integration: 38%
• List of resources: 63%
• Documents data collection: 76%
• Documents planning activities: 70%
• Environmental justice: 30%
• Climate impacts/resiliency/GHG: 4%
• Water quality: 53%
• Health: 2%
• Air quality: 34%
• Noise: 36%
• Wildlife and threatened or endangered species: 43%
• Historical and archaelogical preservation: 48%
• Section 4(f): 30%

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