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TRIS Online Accession Number:00780107
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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;
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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.
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