Maryland DOT’s State Highway Administration has used land use expert panels on three projects when important questions arose about the links between the characteristics of a planned road project and local environmental and land use priorities. This approach required the formation of a panel of outside professionals (real estate experts, developers, environmentalists, bankers, experts in growth management and local planners) who aided in the development of alternative, policy-based land scenarios as the basis for project planning, and who helped consider whether land uses were likely to change as a result of planned transportation improvements. Case/Example: Land Use Expert Panels of State Highway Administration (in Maryland DOT). Source/Reference: Maryland DOT, A.