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ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, and was conducted in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), which is administered by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies. COPYRIGHT PERMISSION Authors herein are responsible for the authenticity of their materials and for obtaining written permissions from publishers or persons who own the copyright to any previously published or copyrighted material used herein. Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) grants permission to reproduce material in this publication for classroom and not-for-profit purposes. Permission is given with the understanding that none of the material will be used to imply TRB, AASHTO, FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FTA, Transit Development Corporation, or AOC endorsement of a particular product, method, or practice. It is expected that those reproducing the material in this document for educational and not-for-profit uses will give appropriate acknowledgment of the source of any reprinted or reproduced material. For other uses of the material, request permission from CRP. DISCLAIMER The opinion and conclusions expressed or implied in the report are those of the research agency. They are not necessarily those of the TRB, the National Research Council, AASHTO, or the U.S. Government. This report has not been edited by TRB.
i Table of Contents List of Acronyms ............................................................................................................iv Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... vii Summary.......................................................................................................................viii 1.0 Introduction .........................................................................................................1-1 1.1 Research Objectives ....................................................................................1-1 1.2 Overview of the Research Approach .......................................................1-1 1.3 Contents of Report......................................................................................1-2 2.0 Review of Existing Practice and Systems.......................................................2-1 2.1 State Initiatives in Environmental Management....................................2-2 2.2 State of Practice for Key Functions...........................................................2-3 2.3 Profiles of Representative Systems ..........................................................2-6 2.4 Resources for Environmental Management............................................2-8 3.0 System Description ............................................................................................3-1 3.1 Design Overview ........................................................................................3-1 3.2 Database Design..........................................................................................3-5 3.3 Development Environment.......................................................................3-8 3.4 Steps in Deploying the EIMS ....................................................................3-9 4.0 Testing Process ....................................................................................................4-1 4.1 Testing Overview........................................................................................4-1 4.2 Selection of Test Agencies .........................................................................4-4 4.3 MoDOT Testing ..........................................................................................4-5 4.4 NCDOT Testing ..........................................................................................4-7 4.5 Testing Results ............................................................................................4-7 5.0 Recommended Future Initiatives ....................................................................5-1 5.1 Recommended EIMS Enhancements .......................................................5-1 5.2 Recommended Stewardship Approach...................................................5-3 6.0 References ............................................................................................................6-1 Appendix A. Representative Environmental Management Initiatives ...........A-1
ii Appendix B. EIMS Userâs Guide ............................................................................ B-1 B.1 Overview ...................................................................................................... B-1 B.2 Main Page ..................................................................................................... B-4 B.3 Plans .............................................................................................................. B-7 B.4 Projects ........................................................................................................ B-12 B.5 Alternatives ................................................................................................ B-16 B.6 Assets .......................................................................................................... B-27 B.7 Commitments............................................................................................. B-31 B.8 Requirements/Best Practice Sets............................................................. B-36 B.9 Documents.................................................................................................. B-41 B.10 System Administration........................................................................... B-43 Note: A summary of this report has been published as NCHRP Research Results Digest 317 and is available to view or purchase at http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=7309. .
iii List of Tables 3-1 EIMS Database Tables ................................................................................ 3-6 4-1 EIMS Test Cases .......................................................................................... 4-1 4-2 Summary of Test Results............................................................................ 4-8 A-1 Examples of Environmental Information Management System Efforts Undertaken by State DOTs ........................................................... A-1 List of Figures 3-1 EIMS Components ...................................................................................... 3-1 3-2 Sample EIMS List View .............................................................................. 3-3 3-3 Sample EIMS Detail View.......................................................................... 3-4 3-4 User Interface Organization ...................................................................... 3-5 3-5 EIMS Conceptual Data Model................................................................... 3-8
iv List of Acronyms AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ASP Active Server Pages CAD Computer-Aided Design Caltrans California Department of Transportation CAP Communicating All Promises CD Compact Disc CE Categorical Exclusion COTS Commercial-of-the-Shelf DOT Department of Transportation EA Environmental Assessment ECOPAC Environmental Commitment and Obligations Package for Construction ECR Environmental Commitment Record EEP Ecosystem Enhancement Program EIM&DSS Environmental Information Management and Decision Support System EIMS Environmental Information Management System EIS Environmental Impact Statement EMS Environmental Management System EPA Environmental Protection Agency ETDM Efficient Transportation Decision Making ETS Environmental Tracking System FHWA Federal Highway Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration GIS Geographic Information Systems GPS Global Positioning Systems
v HPMS Highway Performance Monitoring System IIS Internet Information Services IDOT Illinois Department of Transportation INDOT Indiana Department of Transportation ISO International Standards Organizations KYTC Kentucky Transportation Cabinet MATS Maintenance Activity Tracking System MDAC Microsoft Data Access Components MDSHA Maryland State Highway Administration MMRR Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Record MoDOT Missouri Department of Transportation MPL Mozilla Public License MPO Metropolitan Planning Organization NBI National Bridge Inventory NCDOT North Carolina Department of Transportation NEPA National Environmental Protection Act NOV Notice of Violation NPDES National Pollution Discharge Elimination System NYSDOT New York State Department of Transportation ODBC Open Database Connectivity ODOT Oregon DOT OLE DB Object Linking and Embedding for Databases PDF Portable Document Format PEER Public Entity Environmental Management System Resource PennDOT Pennsylvania Department of Transportation ROD Record of Decision
vi SAFETEA-LU Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act SCOJD Special Committee on Joint Development SQL Structured Query Language TNC The Nature Conservancy TRB Transportation Research Board TXDOT Texas Department of Transportation URL Uniform Record Locator WSDOT Washington State Department of Transportation XML Extensible Markup Language
vii Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank the following individuals who provided valuable input and perspectives on designing an environmental information management system during the course of this effort: The NCHRP Project Managers, Martine Micozzi and Andrew Lemer; all of the members of the NCHRP Project Panel; the FHWA liaison, Constance Hill; the AASHTO liaison, José Aldayuz; and system testers Kathy Harvey and William Carter from the Missouri Department of Transportation.
