Streamlining Transportation Corridors Planning Processes and Validating the Application of Commercial Remote Sensing and Spatial Information (CRS-SI) Technologies for Envionmental Impact Assessments

A segment of I-69 from I-55 near Hernando, MS to US 51 385 near Millington, TN provides an ideal testbed to implement the proposed use of new and innovative technologies for quantifying benefits versus traditional approaches to transportation infrastructures planning for corridor of national significance for which an environmental impact statement (EIS) has been recently completed. New and innovative approaches include multi-source remote sensing (RS) data and analysis for rapid evaluation of transportation corridor alignment options, screening of non-viable alternatives, and identification of environmentally sensitive areas and quantification of impacts; advanced transportation modeling of normal and emergency operations; and new global positioning system (GPS) technologies to enhance field data collection.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ncrste.msstate.edu/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Advanced Research, Commercial Remote Sensing

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $1535000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTOS59-07-H-0004

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  Office of Research, Development, and Technology
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC    20590
• Project Managers:

  Singh, Caesar

• Performing Organizations:

  Mississippi State University, Mississippi State

  2 Research Boulevard
  Mississippi State, MS    39759
• Principal Investigators:

  O'Hara, Charles

• Start Date: 20070701
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20100630
• Source Data: RiP Project 35412

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Environmental impacts; Global Positioning System; Remote sensing; Technological innovations; Transportation corridors; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494538
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTOS59-07-H-0004
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Sep 27 2013 1:00AM