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:
  • Transportation planning
  • Local transportation
  • Rural transportation
  • Community action programs
  • Public participation
  • Decision making
  • Strategic planning
  • Alternatives analysis
  • Citizen participation
  • Community economics
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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.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12669/dot_12669_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 260.75 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:80fb85e55cd91d3d67e7eea5e2937e0252ddab2ca9187edf324c684afcce09ed