State/Tribal Transportation Planning Relations and Strategies

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• Creators:
  Partridge, Michael P.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Washington (State). Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Cultural Differences Growth Management Act Indian Reservations Native Americans Regional Planning State Departments Of Transportation Transportation Planning Tribal Lands
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403516
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Washington (State). Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Both ISTEA and the creation of Regional Transportation Organizations, growth management legislation, have resulted in a greatly increased need to coordinate transportation planning with Native American Tribes. Some of the problems encountered are lack of coordination between tribal transportation plans and state and regional transportation plans. This lack of coordination in many ways has hindered the ability to construct a seamless multimodal transportation network in some areas of the state. Washington State has responded to this challenge by joining with the tribal nations to hold an annual Tribal/WSDOT Transportation meeting. Since 1994, the two groups have met annually to discuss mutually agreed upon issues. At the conclusion of each meeting, advisory groups have been formed, with membership from both the tribes and WSDOT, to work on identified issues. Before the next annual meeting the advisory groups meet and formalize recommendations and solutions to the issues. These recommendations are then brought forward to the entire group at the next annual meeting. Some of the lessons learned in this process are: that tribal nations are sovereign nations and each tribe deals with transportation issues differently; relationships must be developed with tribal nations before the problem can be solved; and one must proceed slowly --- the Tribal timeline is not the same as WSDOT's timeline.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:05257174c5d97223f80ed52f4d9d64779aed43bccaff8f1383f7c38276c23a0fc5ca2dc2a1bf99cd395f8aa46a549cb6b87fc6167be3b68cd4ace09ace8a0521
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