RES2023-08: Beautifying Tennessee's Roadways and Enhancing Its Ecology By Strategizing Pollinator Habitat Potential
As of January 2022, Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) manages 3,670 miles of roadway which suggests that the rights-of-way along these segments offer a great advantage to supporting Tennessee’s vast native plants and pollinators species. Likewise, the cost to maintain these rights-of-way is minimized. TDOT has a few publications that addresses native species planting along its roadways, but a statewide guidance document that offers identifying species for planting based on site conditions, targeted maintenance specifications, an evaluation process to measure success, and a public outreach program about these areas is missing. To address this, a less academic route has been chosen that instead includes expertise from botanic gardens, native plant groups, and pollinator specialists within Tennessee to work with university faculty to develop these guidance protocols
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $181295
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Contract Numbers:
RES2023-08
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Sponsor Organizations:
Tennessee Department of Transportation
James K. Polk Building
Fifth and Deaderick Street
Nashville, TN United States 37243-0349 -
Managing Organizations:
Tennessee Department of Transportation
James K. Polk Building
Fifth and Deaderick Street
Nashville, TN United States 37243-0349 -
Performing Organizations:
University of Memphis
Center for Intermodal Freight Transportation Studies
3815 Central Avenue
Memphis, TN United States 38152 -
Principal Investigators:
Waldron, Brian
- Start Date: 20220801
- Expected Completion Date: 20240731
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Habitat (Ecology); Insects; Native plants; Right of way (Land)
- Geographic Terms: Tennessee
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01854596
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Tennessee Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: RES2023-08
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Aug 12 2022 12:09PM