Abstract: The Small Business Liability and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002 reflects a continuing national commitment to redevelop and return brownfields to productive use. As brownfields are being redeveloped, there are a ...

Abstract: Addressing the sustainability of transportation systems is an important activity as evidenced by a growing number of initiatives around the world to define and measure sustainability in transportation planning and ...

Abstract: Several state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in the United States are considering environmental issues in the early stages of the transportation planning process, ...

Abstract: As sustainable development becomes a more important objective in civil infrastructure planning and policymaking, quality of life (QOL) is an increasingly important measure to understand, characterize, and apply effectively ...

Abstract: Infrastructure agencies worldwide develop and continue to refine quantitative decision support systems for performance and investment projections. In the earlier stages of the creation of infrastructure decision support ...

Abstract: The 2012 transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, formalizes the application of risk management in transportation asset management decision making. The bill requires departments of transportation ...

Abstract: Historically, transportation asset management has focused more on pavements and bridges, and less on ancillary assets such as traffic signs and guardrails. This paper synthesizes the state of practice of ancillary ...

Abstract: Brownfields are vacant, underutilized, or abandoned industrial and commercial sites where real or perceived environmental contamination is an obstacle to development. Federal initiatives in the 1990s reduced legal liabilities ...

Abstract: This study aims to expand understanding of how regional transportation collaboration operates and examines the relationships between collaboration and performance. To do so, nine regional safety coalitions that use ...