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1 Practice: CDOT Planning Insight Network Public Commenting Tool (PIN)
Subject Area: Planning
State: Colorado
Organization: Colorado Department of Transportation
Contact: Aaron Willis
Email: Aaron.Willis@dot.state.co.us
Phone: 303-512-4019
Description: Planning Insight Network (PIN) is a web-based application that allows the public to access all 15 regional long range transportation plans and provide comments. Through this GIS interactive tool the public can make site specific comments on or off the state highway system in relation to the state's 350 transportation corridors. Additionally, the public can access the corridor vision, goals, and strategies for all of Colorado's regional transportation plans.
   
2 Practice: Colorado Corridor Streamlining Evaluation Project
Subject Areas: Environment
Planning
State: Colorado
Contact: Stephanie Gibson
Email: Stephanie.gibson@dot.gov
Phone: 720-963-3690
Description: The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) currently evaluates impacts to the human and natural environment on a project-by-project basis and at the project design level. On corridors with many successive projects, this often results in the replication of environmental impact studies. CDOT's Corridor Streamlining Evaluation Project is developing a method for evaluating potential impacts to resources from future projects at the corridor level and during project planning. By conducting evaluations at the corridor level, several projects can be evaluated, lessening the number of studies needed. As part of this pilot project, CDOT conducted a pilot study on State Highway 24 to evaluate the use of aerial imagery and remote sensing technology to accurately map environmental resources. The pilot, which builds on previous CDOT efforts to map wetlands with infrared photography, mapped plant communities, sensitive species habitats, wildlife corridors, historical and archeological resources, and hazardous waste sites. The pilot also evaluated the relative and absolute accuracy of different scales and assessed various methods of interpreting remotely-sensed imagery. Wetlands data collected and stored in CDOT's Geographic Information System (GIS) are already being used to predict impacts, select wetlands mitigation sites, and support a Section 7 consultation for a threatened species. CDOT used a refined application of this technology on the US 285 transportation corridor project to support a feasibility study. Using remotely-sensed data to identify lynx habitat and model probable lynx dispersal routes, CDOT is locating the best sites for crossing structures. Overall, CDOT's Corridor Streamlining Evaluation Project will allow it to map boundaries and objects and collect environmental data accurately while projects are still being conceptualized. The base maps developed and data collected will allow CDOT to decide on project design, develop cumulative impact assessments, and anticipate and identify mitigation needs and opportunities.
   
3 Practice: Data, Maps, and Statistics
Subject Areas: Asset Management
Environment
Operations
State: Colorado
Organization: Colorado Department of Transportation
Contact: Kim Hubble
Email: Kim.Hubble@dot.state.co.us
Phone: 303-757-9526
Description: The Data Access application provides users with highway attribute information including geometrics, traffic counts, environmental information, and pavement information through multiple tools. Highway statistics, traffic reports, geographic data, and maps are also available for download.
Related Documentation: https://dtdapps.coloradodot.info/otis
   
4 Practice: OTIS
Subject Area: GDC
State: Colorado
Organization: Colorado Department of Transportation
Contact: Gary Aucott
Title: GIS Specialist
Email: Gary.Aucott@state.co.us
Description: CDOT's OTIS is a portal that provides access to a wide range of geospatial information for transportation planning and project development, as well as for public reference. OTIS is essentially a centralized, "one-stop shop" for viewing highway, environmental, project and traffic data, but it also offers access to statewide maps, reports, highway imagery, as well as a spatial and tabular data inventory. OTIS currently contains mostly CDOT data, with the exception of datasets provided by cities and counties.
Related Documentation: https://dtdapps.coloradodot.info/otis
   
5 Practice: Planning and Environmental Linkages Decision Tool (PEL)
Subject Areas: Environment
Planning
State: Colorado
Organization: Colorado DOT
Contact: Francis Oppermann
Title: Environmental Planner
Email: Francis.Oppermann@dot.state.co.us
Phone: 303-757-9497
Description: This application provides users with a tool for determining what level of work may be necessary before a project can be constructed, and what early steps can be taken prior to project development to move the process forward.
Related Documentation: https://www.codot.gov/programs/environmental/planning-env-link-program
   
6 Practice: Prioritizing Potential Crossing Areas for a Programmatic Approach to Section 7 Consultation for the Canada Lynx - Colorado DOT
Subject Area: Environment
State: Colorado
Organization: Colorado Department of Transportation
Contact: Jeff Peterson
Title: Threatened and Endangered Species Coordinator
Email: jeff.peterson@dot.state.co.us
Phone: 303-512-4959
Description: The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is developing a programmatic approach to Section 7 of the Federal Endangered Species Act for the wide-ranging Canada lynx. The Canada lynx was listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in March 2000, following a state reintroduction program. Lynx range from Alaska south to Canada and into the snowy northern reaches of the United States, with significant gaps in connectivity, especially in the Southern Rockies where land is subject to more development pressure and intensive Federal management. Amendments to 29 National Forest Plans and four Bureau of Land Management (BLM) units where lynx are presumed present are in process, with attention to preserving habitat for the snowshoe hare (the lynx' primary food source), limiting snowmobile access, and restoring habitat connectivity across highways and through ski areas. The USFWS has indicated that restoration of connectivity, especially across highways, will be necessary for delisting of the lynx. CDOT is funding Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling of snowshoe hare habitat (an indicator for the lynx), along with GIS identification of the types of habitat that exist between locations known to have been visited by released lynx. CDOT says known, preferred habitat characteristics for any species can be entered into their model to predict movement corridors. The model may be applied to other wide-ranging species, either listed or considered for listing. Parameters may include habitat edge effects, vegetation details, slope and aspect, vegetation patch size, home range, dispersal distance, and cost of movement through different terrain, to establish habitat rankings and comparative preference for different routes lynx may take through the landscape. After extrapolating the landscape indicators of lynx dispersal routes, CDOT plans to test the model on the most recent year's lynx dispersal data. An interagency team of experts will discuss and judge parameters based on different sensitivities. As a next step, the habitat and connectivity model will be combined with an inventory of highway barriers-including jersey barriers, retaining walls, and steep slopes-to identify areas needing connectivity improvements. These priority areas will form the core of CDOT's programmatic Section 7 consultation with USFWS for the Canada lynx, which the department hopes to complete by the end of 2003. CDOT investments in high priority connectivity improvement areas will fulfill Section 7 consultation requirements and provide conservation measures for transportation improvements elsewhere within the local region, where transportation improvements may increase speeds or traffic volumes and affect the lynx' ability to disperse.
   
7 Practice: Project information and Mapping
Subject Areas: Asset Management
Environment
Maintenance
Operations
Planning
State: Colorado
Organization: Colorado DOT
Contact: Jamie Collins
Title: Budget & Policy Analyst
Email: Jamie.Collins@dot.state.co.us
Phone: 303-757-9092
Description: CDOT uses SAP software for its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). A web mapping interface was developed to allow CDOT to enter and track locational information and other aspects of transportation construction, maintenance, environmental, long-range planning, and STIP projects. The CDOT Project Locator application (ProLo) allows users to find detailed information about Long Range Planning (LRP) corridors and Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) projects throughout Colorado.
Related Documentation: http://dtdapps.coloradodot.info/prolojs/
   
8 Practice: Transportation Secure Data Center (TSDC)
Subject Areas: Environment
Planning
State: Colorado
Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory Center for Transportation Technologies and Systems
Contact: Jeff Gonder
Title: Senior Engineer
Email: Jeff.Gonder@nrel.gov
Description: FHWA's Fall 2011 GIS in Transportation Newsletter describes the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Center (NREL) for Transportation Technologies and Systems' development of the Transportation Secure Data Center (TSDC). The NREL partnered with the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) to launch the TSDC, which is intended to address the dilemma of providing access to valuable data while protecting privacy. For more information, please see http://www.gis.fhwa.dot.gov/documents/Newsletter_Fall2011.htm and http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/secure_transportation_data.html.
Related Documentation: https://www.gis.fhwa.dot.gov/newsletters/Newsletter_Fall2011.aspx
   
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