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Thorne JH, McCoy MC, Hollander A, Roth N and Quinn JF. 2006. Regional analysis for transportation corridor planning. IN: Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Eds. Irwin CL, Garrett P, McDermott KP. Center for Transportation and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: pp. 175-182.

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ABSTRACT:
Developing regional assessments of environmental needs can help streamline the environmental-review process for transportation projects, thus leading to faster and less-costly reviews and more effective biological or ecological mitigation. This study is a demonstration of a rapid-assessment approach using a high-resolution vegetation map derived from agency data to model 12 endangered or threatened species’ potential occurrence on 6638 polygons. Those units, occurring on 44 capacity-improvement sites along the 315-km of State Highway 99 in the study, were classed to measure their degree of similarity, thus permitting estimates of the potential for multi-project mitigation planning.

CITATION:
Thorne JH, McCoy MC, Hollander A, Roth N and Quinn JF. 2006. Regional analysis for transportation corridor planning. IN: Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Eds. Irwin CL, Garrett P, McDermott KP. Center for Transportation and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: pp. 175-182.

Road Ecology Center. Paper Thorne2005a.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/roadeco/Thorne2005a