APPENDIX C. STATE DOT OUTREACH QUESTIONS
Dear [NAME],
The FHWA aims to organize a Peer Exchange on the topic of using GIS
to strengthen linkages between planning and environment, and we invite
your state to participate! The Peer Exchange will convene practitioners
wanting to know more about how GIS can strengthen the linkages with
those who have had successes in this area.
We are contacting you because during a recent phone conversation
with the Volpe Center regarding your state's activities relating to
Linking Planning and NEPA, you and/or others in your state expressed a
desire for more information about the use of GIS in Linking Planning
and NEPA.
If your state is interested in participating in the potential Peer
Exchange, we would like to solicit your help in putting together a
useful and informative agenda. Please take a moment to respond to the
following questions:
- Which specific topics or questions would you like to see discussed? Please rank by preference (1 = most interest)
- Documenting existing transportation and environmental data from resource agencies and other sources
- Achieving cooperation with resource agencies and other owners to access environmental data, including inter-agency agreements
- Developing
software tools that allow for information to be overlaid and analyzed
for transportation impacts, and to be shared among and within agencies
during transportation decision processes, including web access and
ability to record comments and decisions at multiple points
- Using the data effectively in a planning process
- Convincing upper management to invest in GIS
- Other (Please explain)
- Which states have exemplary GIS practices for strong planning and environment linkages that you know of?
- Do you have any other suggestions or concerns?
If you can send a reply, including whether or not your state wishes
to participate, by [DATE], that would be greatly appreciated!
Footnotes
- For more information, visit PEL's website at https://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/env_initiatives/PEL.aspx.
- Refer to Appendix C to see the questionnaire.