GIS Database for the Archeological Sensitivity of Rhode Island Department of Transportation's Highway Bridge Sites and Associated Roadway Approaches
This study will assess the archeological sensitivity of Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) bridge and associated roadway approaches for projects currently identified in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the RIDOT Project Management Portal (PMP) and, in doing so, will assist the Environmental and Cultural Resources Units of RIDOT in expediting the identification and evaluation phase if the Section 106 review process. The study will target all bridges in the TIP and PMP, including those that are scheduled by RIDOT for rehabilitation or replacement. The study will combine archeological, historical, and cartographic research with field survey. The deliverable will include a geospatial database with coverage for bridge footprints (buffered to 200 meters), known archeological sites in the vicinity of the bridges, known historic sites in the vicinity of the bridges, and, for priority bridges scheduled for replacement, cultural material identified during reconnaissance level survey of historic bridges and their surrounding areas. This later coverage would be tied or "hotlinked" to a library of geo-tagged photographs of the cultural material. The major benefit of this study is to complete the identification and evaluation phase of the Section 106 review process for all current bridge projects rather than undertaking this phase for each individual project on a project-by-project basis, as is current practice.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $75780.00
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Sponsor Organizations:
University of Rhode Island Transportation Center
University of Rhode Island
75 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI United States 02881 -
Principal Investigators:
Mather, Rod
- Start Date: 20120215
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20130630
- Source Data: RiP Project 29967
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bridge approaches; Detection and identification; Highway bridges; Historic bridges; Rehabilitation
- Identifier Terms: Rhode Island Department of Transportation; Transportation Improvement Program
- Uncontrolled Terms: Archeological investigations; Archeological sites; Geospatial databases
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Data and Information Technology; Highways; History;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01465764
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: University of Rhode Island Transportation Center
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:05PM