Citizen Transportation Planning: A Working Model

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• Creators:
  Works, Bob ; Billiar, Kristie
• Corporate Contributors:
  Washington (State). Department of Transportation ; National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Alternatives Analysis Citizen Participation Community Action Programs Community Economics Decision Making Local Transportation Nisswa (Minnesota) Public Participation Rural Transportation Strategic Planning Transportation Action Model (TAM) Transportation Planning Two Harbors (Minnesota)

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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403248
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  Minnesota
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00780107
• Corporate Publisher:
  Washington (State). Department of Transportation
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Transit Planning and Policy ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Public Participation and Outreach ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Congestion
• Abstract:
  All communities, regardless of their location or size, face the need to re-think
  
  and plan their transportation futures. Historically, many communities have left
  
  planning to outside sources; whether it was the district level of a state's
  
  transportation department or consulants. Each source has typically designed
  
  plans with little early input from the citizens of the community. This method,
  
  while accepted by tradition, has little opportunity for the informed community
  
  experience that allows for quality transportation decisions. One process, the
  
  Transportation Action Model, challenges the status quo of transportation
  
  planning.
  
  The Transportation Action Model (TAM), initiated and designed by a
  
  national consortium led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was created with
  
  two guiding principles. First, sound transportation systems and the decisions
  
  behind them are critical to the social and economic well being of communities.
  
  Second, informed community participation creates better transportation decisions.
  
  By marrying technical information with a citizen-driven decision process, the
  
  TAM helps communities produce their own blueprint for local action. In
  
  Twenty-one weeks, with a minimum of twenty-five participants from a broad range
  
  of transportation stakeholders and citizens, a community can become an active
  
  voice in their transportation future.
  
  Two rural communities in Minnesota, Two Harbors and Nisswa, challenged
  
  themselves and their planning histories by using the Transportation Action Model.
  
  Both communities, each with unique transportation histories and development
  
  sought this model as a way to deal with existing congestion impacts and future
  
  development pressures. Through public dialogue each community could frame
  
  local transportation issues and develop potential solutions to create a
  
  Transportation Action Plan that will assist the formal transportation plans and
  
  decisions of the future.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:80fb85e55cd91d3d67e7eea5e2937e0252ddab2ca9187edf324c684afcce09ed
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12669/dot_12669_DS1.pdf
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