Introduction

This Transportation Toolkit is designed to assist Federal lands managers in identifying transportation challenges and potential solutions that apply to their respective lands. Specifically, the Toolkit is targeted to managers with limited previous exposure to transportation issues, processes and solutions. This Toolkit can assist you in the planning process by helping you define the issues you're facing and learn about a range of options that may help. The Toolkit is not a replacement for engineering judgment or the engineering process required to implement a transportation improvement, nor does it cover all potential challenges and solutions.  However, it may help you select possible solutions for further exploration.

Getting Started

There are two primary ways to utilize the Toolkit. The Decision Support System is designed to help Federal land managers who are just beginning to conduct transportation planning and need help identifying which issues to address. The Challenges-Solutions Matrix is targeted at managers who've identified their specific transportation challenges and want to go directly to information about their options.

Decision Support System	Challenges-Solutions Matrix
This part of the Toolkit will ask you a series of questions to help you further define the transportation challenges you may be facing. Based on your responses to the questions, the Toolkit will indicate what solutions exist to address the challenges you have identified. The potential solutions are presented in the form of a Fact Sheet for your review.	In this area of the Toolkit, the potential solutions (Fact Sheets) are catalogued by the transportation challenges you may be facing in your particular Federal land. From the matrix, you can quickly select a particular transportation challenge, and see which solutions address that issue.

Once you are familiar with what's available, you can go directly to the tool or information you need by using the links on the top of the page.

Technical Report No:FHWA-CFL/TD-06-003