Streamlining and Integrating Right-of-Way and Utility Processes With Planning, Environmental, and Design Processes in Australia and Canada

International Technology Scanning Program
Federal Highway Administration
June 2009

Many transportation projects require acquisition of land and accommodation of utility facilities in the right-of-way. The Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored a scanning study of Australia and Canada to learn about innovative practices for right-of-way and utility processes.

The study complemented a 2000 study of European countries. The scan team identified nine priorities for U.S. implementation: promote incentive-based reimbursement
for utility relocations, pursue corridor preservation strategies, use an alliance contract approach to integrate right-of-way acquisition and utility coordination, enhance cooperative relationships with property owners to facilitate timely property acquisition, develop GIS-based right-of-way project and asset management systems, promote visualization techniques to communicate project impacts, promote use of multiple-level MOU structures, promote use of utility coordination best practices during construction, and develop a framework to establish proficiency of right-of-way and utility professionals.

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