An official website of the OBJECTIVE: Natural systems
The Transportation Policy Plan has 1 objective to advance the regional goal: we lead on addressing climate change.
This objective is:
- The region’s transportation system protects, restores, and enhances natural systems (for example, air, water, soil, vegetation, and habitat quality).
Natural systems include land, air, and water and their ecosystems. Transportation uses interact with these natural systems in a variety of ways: fragmenting natural habitats; noise, water, and air pollution; impacts from paved surfaces; and more. Typically, environmental analysis processes that are required by the state and federal governments address the impacts to natural systems caused by transportation projects. The policies that support the region’s goal to protect and restore natural systems will promote and encourage protection, mitigation, and restoration efforts. Learn more about the Natural Systems goal.
