Benefits
As identified in National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 642: Quantifying the Benefits of Context Sensitive Solutions.
- Improved predictability of project delivery
- Improved project scoping and budgeting
- Improved long-term decisions and investments
- Improved environmental stewardship
- Optimized maintenance and operations
- Increased risk management and liability protection
- Improved stakeholder and public feedback
- Increased stakeholder and public participation, ownership and trust
- Decreased costs for overall project delivery
- Decreased time for overall project delivery
- Increased partnering opportunities
- Minimized impact to human and natural environment
- Improved mobility for users
- Improved walk-ability and bike-ability
- Improved safety (vehicular, pedestrian, bicyclist)
- Improved multi-modal options (including transit)
- Improved community satisfaction
- Improved quality of life for communities
- Improved speed management
- Design features appropriate to context
- Minimized construction related disruption
- Improved opportunities for economic development
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