Luke Boggess, Senior GIS Specialist

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Efficient Transportation Decision Making
Environmental Screening Tool An Overview of
Florida Department of Transportations Success in
Redefining Transportation Planning and Concepts
for Implementation in Alaska
Thursday, February 24, 2005
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Introduction

• URS Presenters
• Presentation Overview
• ETDM overview
• Concepts on Alaska application
• Discussion

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URS Presenters

• Who we are
• Luke Boggess, Senior GIS Specialist
• Laura Young, Technical Services Manager
• Who is URS?
• URS provides consulting services in planning,
  compliance, engineering, environmental and social
  sciences.
• More familiar predecessor companies are Dames
  Moore, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, and Radian
  International, having provided services in Alaska
  over the past 50 years.

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Efficient Transportation Decision Making
Environmental Screening Tool

• Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
  (TEA 21) guidelines call for a streamlined
  approach to the NEPA process
• FDOT, FHWA, FTA, and cooperating federal, state,
  and local agencies successfully streamlined the
  NEPA process for transportation projects in
  Florida with the Efficient Transportation
  Decision Making (ETDM) Environmental Screening
  Tool

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ETDM Foundation

• Data Entry
• GIS Analysis
• Cooperating Agency Review and Feedback
• Summary Reports

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How does it work?

• Environmental Technical Advisory Team (ETAT)
• Internet Project Database
• Standardized Data and Analysis

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ETDM Process

• Concurrent Actions
• Early Identification of Critical Issues
• Public Participation from Start to Finish
• Interactive Planning
• Shortened Timeline
• Efficiency Gained from Technology
• Early Approvals Linked to NEPA Reviews

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What drove TEA-21?

• Sequential, Dependent Actions
• Long Timeline with Gaps
• Late Public Involvement
• Late Agency Involvement
• Risk of Late Project Changes

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Environmental Review Streamlining

• Integrate
• Analyze
• Communicate
• Report
• Record

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EST Process and Data Flow
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Modular Development

• Project Input Utility
• Project Management Tools
• ETAT Review Tools
• Socio-cultural Effects Module
• Public Information Site

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Technology Foundation

• Relational database centered
• Schema specific attribute tables
• GIS data
• Project data
• 34 database triggers for history update and
  tracking

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EST Application Structure

• Analysis areas of 100 ft, 500 ft, and 1 mile
• Standard GIS Functions
• Buffer
• Attribute query
• Spatial query
• Clip
• Summarize

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EST Application Structure

• GIS operations and compilations done
  automatically
• Coded with ArcObjects in VB
• Analysis definitions are stored in database

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EST System Configuration

• DBMS Server
• Oracle 8i
• SunFire 280R w/ dual 900 MHz CPUs
• Solaris 8
• ArcSDE 8.2

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EST System Configuration

• ArcIMS Server
• Dell Poweredge 6450 w/ dual 1GHz CPUs
• Windows 2000 Server
• Apache 1.3.27
• Tomcat 3.2.3
• ArcIMS 4.0.1

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EST System Configuration

• Application Servers
• Dell Poweredge 6450 w/ dual 1 GHz CPUs
• Dell Precision 410 w/ dual 500 MHz CPUs

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Alaska Implementation Concepts

• Ability to use existing technology (application)
  from FDOT URS
• Data
• Administration of the process
• Buy-in from cooperating agencies

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We are close...

• NSB initial attempt in mid-80s
• Conceptual North Slope Science Initiative w/BLM
• QuantM

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Acknowledgements

• Frank Kalpakis, URS Corporation
• Tom Turton, URS Corporation
• Peter McDilvray, Florida DOT
• Michael Konikoff, URS Corporation
• Ruth Roaza, URS Corporation
• Ilir Bejleri, Ph.D., University of Florida
• Alexis Thomas, University of Florida