Mitigating environmental impacts in advance: Evidence of cost and time savings for transportation projects

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• 作者：Gian-Claudia Sciara^a ; ^b ; ^{sciara@utexas.edu} ; Jacquelyn Bjorkman^c ; ^{jhonig@ucdavis.edu} ; Elizabeth Stryjewski^d ; ¹ ; ^{stryjewski@mcubed-econ.com} ; James H. Thorne^c ; ^{jhthorne@ucdavis.edu}
• 关键词：Environmental impact ; Environmental delay ; Environmental mitigation ; Compensatory mitigation ; Advance mitigation ; Conservation ; Transportation ; Project development
• 刊名：Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：50
• 期：Complete
• 页码：316-326
• 全文大小：407 K
• 卷排序：50

文摘

Early environmental mitigation can improve ecological outcomes and reduce costs. Early mitigation of transport projects can yield agency financial and staff time savings. Advance mitigation can yield economies of scale and avoid some costs and delays. Advance mitigation may speed project delivery in California by 1.3–5.0 months.