The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Department of Transportation Development (DTD) conducted a study to evaluate the usefulness of the Quantm system for planning transportation improvements in Colorado.
STEP UP, the Strategic Transportation, Environmental and Planning Process for Urbanizing Places, is an environmental streamlining project for Colorado to develop an improved process for addressing environmental impacts related to transportation projects at the earliest stage and the tools to implement the process.
Currently, CDOT has no uniform statewide procedure to size detour drainage structures and permanent hydraulic structures using existing methodologies may result in failures. The main objective of the study is to develop a statewide detour drainage structure design procedure that also considers environmental impacts and mitigation measures.