 WHAT ARE PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT LINKAGES?
Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) represent an approach to transportation decision-making that considers environmental, community, and economic goals early in the planning stage and carries them through project development, design, and construction.
This can lead to a seamless decision-making process that minimizes duplication of effort, promotes environmental stewardship, and reduces delays in project implementation.
With increased emphasis on transportation’s role/impact on the environmental, community, and economic well-being of the region. The continuous introduction and consideration of environmental topics such as climate change emphasizes the important linkages between the long-range transportation planning process and environmental planning.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is working to implement PEL efforts in consultation with resource agencies. Consultation efforts are conducted at Transportation Resource Agency Consultation and Environmental Streamlining or TRACESmeetings that offer both transportation and environmental planning professionals a forum to develop consensus on environmental and transportation aspects of long-range transportation plans.
This site is designed to provide information, gather feedback, and establish a forum for communication and collaboration to enhance the consideration of environmental impacts during the transportation planning process.
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Program Contact: Tamara Hollowell |
