Hemispheric Plan for Environmental Management Guidance of Road Transportation Corridors

The Office for Sustainable Development and Environment supports the member states of the OAS in promoting trade corridor development by contributing to an understanding of environmental concerns related to road corridor development, by identifying existing knowledge and expertise in the region, and by promoting corridor development which is resilient to natural hazards. Transportation corridors are important in light of the increasing number and complexity of trade agreements being signed in the Americas, and the resulting increase in transported goods.

The Hemispheric Plan for Environmental Management Guidance of Road Transportation Corridors is being developed by the OSDE with support from IDB, IBRD, CAF and the Pan-American Institute of Highways (PIH) in order to disseminate information in the area of environmental management of road corridors. The Plan is a guide to establishing policy, procedures and standards based on the experiences to date of the member states. The Plan is divided into four areas:

• a guide containing policies, planning processes or procedures, projects (case studies), and preparedness for emergencies;

• an annotated bibliography;

• a matrix classifying the documents in the bibliography;

• section on the implementation and development of the Plan (1996 to present).
  

In coordination with the World Bank, IDB, CAF, the U.S. National Highway Institute, and PIF, the OAS prepared and presented a second draft of the Hemispheric Plan for Environmental Management Guidance in the Road Transportation Sector at the Third Meeting of the Latin American Society of Transportation Environmental Units (Brazil, December, 1998).

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