PMSS Project Details

Project ID:	FHWA-PROJ-05-0002
Project Name:	Environmental Investigation in Support of the Federal Highway Administration Finding of No Significant Impact for Construction of a Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System
Status:	Completed
Contact:	Last Name: Persaud First Name: Rudy Telephone: 202-493-3391 E-mail: rudy.persaud@dot.gov
Organization:	Federal Highway Administration - Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)
Office:	Office of Operations Research and Development
Team:	Trans Operations Applications Team
Roadmap/Focus area(s):	Not Applicable
Project Description:	The United States Department of Transportation in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard has been authorized to select, install, and operate a Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System for public and private applications. The Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System will supplement the existing Standard Positioning Service global positioning system range information with differential correction broadcast from a network of reference stations, enabling a user receiving both the Standard Positioning Service and the Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System signal to more precisely determine geographic location. To implement the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act for this Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System project, the Federal Highway Administration will serve as the environmental lead agency while the Federal Railroad Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard will serve as cooperating agencies. All three agencies have previously signed a Memorandum of Agreement to implement the National Environmental Policy Act and a Programmatic Environmental Assessment was prepared in 1998, which was followed by the issuance of a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Construction of a Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System.
Laboratories:	Not Applicable
Start Date:	August 1, 2005
End Date:	September 30, 2010
Funding Amount:	$523,691.00
FHWA Program Name:	Other
Goals:	The project focuses on an environmental investigation for a Nationwide differential global positioning system.
Project Type:	Offsite
Background Information:	Data not yet available
Test Methodology:	To conduct a study for Nationwide differential global positioning system sites.
Other Information:	Data not yet available
Partners:	Data not yet available
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Fieldtest:	Data not yet available
Expected Benefits:	Provide Nationwide differential global positioning system correction signal.
Deliverables:	Name: Provide alternate positioning. Product Type(s): Other Description: Finding of No Significant Impact. Audiences: public Secondary Audiences:
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Project Findings:	A global positioning system (GPS) satisfies environmental requirements.
FHWA Topics:	Environment--Public Involvement
TRT Terms:	Environmental Impact Statements Operations Research Environment Global Positioning System Construction
FHWA Disciplines:	Environment
Subject Areas:	Environment