Transportation Planning and Public Participation: Theory, Process, and Practice

Transportation Planning and Public Involvement: Theory, Process, and Practice explains why, and then how, transportation professionals can treat public involvement as an opportunity to improve their projects and identify problems before they do real damage. Using fundamental principles based on extensive project-based research, the book helps readers re-think their expectations regarding the project process. It shows how public perspectives can be appropriately solicited, gathered, modeled and integrated into the planning and design process, guides project designers on how to ask the proper questions and identify strategies, and identifies and demonstrates the tradeoffs of different techniques.

Users will find an analytic and evaluation framework-along with process design guidelines-that will help improve the usefulness and applicability of public input.

Shows how to apply quantifiable metrics to the public involvement processHelps readers critically analyze and identify project properties that impact public involvement process decisionsProvides in-depth examples that demonstrate how feedback, representation and decision modeling can be integrated to achieve outcomesDemonstrates basic principles using examples from a wide range of types and scalesPresents tactics on how to make public meetings more efficient and satisfying by integrating appropriate visualizations

Part I: Theory 1. Public Participation in Transportation Planning and Design 2. Justice and the Arnstein Gap 3. Participation Performance Frameworks

Part II: Process 4. Project Formation and Public Participation Process Considerations 5. Gathering Information: Feedback Tools and Mechanics 6. Dialog and Outcomes: Process Design With a Purpose

Part III: Practice 7 Advanced Multi-Criteria Applications 8. Learning by Doing: Development of CAVE and SPI 9. The Problem in ReView 10. What Is To Be Done?

Appendix: Resources Topical Guide to Projects and Research Papers Project Context Analysis Worksheet ORID Question Design Guide