Technical Committee on Environmental Design

Chair: Dan Stewart, PA
Vice Chair: Louis Feagans, IN
Secretary: Keith Harrison, FHWA

Objective and Scope
The objective of this technical committee is to review, develop, and recommend AASHTO positions on environmental design issues for the AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Design as required or assigned.

Publication Responsibility
The technical committee is responsible for developing and updating the following documents:

• Guide for Transportation Landscape and Environmental Design, 1991 (update underway)
• Guide on Evaluation and Abatement of Traffic Noise, 1993
• Guide to Wetland Mitigation Issues for Transportation Designers, 1996
• Policy on Land Use and Source Control Aspects of Traffic Noise Attenuation, 1980
• Visualization in Transportation, 2003 (see References section)

Unless otherwise noted, these publications can be purchased from AASHTO's Bookstore.

Meeting Minutes
The following are the official minutes from recent technical committee meetings:

• Spring 2008: Baltimore, Maryland (Adobe pdf format, 188k)
• Spring 2007: Harbor Springs, Michigan (Adobe pdf format, 105k)
• Fall 2006: Cody, WY (Adobe pdf format, 60k)
• Spring 2006: St. Augustine, FL (Adobe pdf format, 61k)
• Fall 2005: Santa Fe, NM (Adobe pdf format, 64k)
• Spring 2005: Natchez, MS (Adobe pdf format, 65k)

Conference Call Meeting Minutes
The following are recordings from recent conference call meetings:

• June 2011

Members

For detailed member contact information, click here.

Region 1
Maryland	Karen Coffman
New York	Philip Bell
Pennsylvania	Daniel B. Stewart (Chair)
Vermont	John Narowski
Region 2
Florida	Jeff Caster
Mississippi	Adam Johnson
South Carolina	Mark Lester
West Virginia	Greg Akers
Region 3
Indiana	Louis Feagans (Vice Chair)
Iowa	Scott Marler
Minnesota	David Larson
Indiana	Laura Hilden
Region 4
California	Keith Robinson
Hawaii	Chris Dacus
Idaho	Greg Vitley
Wyoming	Tim Stark
Other
FHWA	Keith Harrison
AASHTO Liaison - Design	Keith Platte