Improving collaboration and consensus building in the coordination of access management and land use in corridor planning.

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• Creators:
  Howe, Roger W.
• Corporate Creators:
  Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Virginia. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Transportation corridors
  • Land use planning
  • Access control (Transportation)
  • Consensus
  • Cooperation
  • Literature reviews
  • Recommendations
  • Case studies
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/VCTIR 15-R20
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Virginia
• Corporate Publisher:
  Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research
• Abstract:
  The success of access management depends on the coordination of access management planning and land use planning, ; but the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has control over access management in Virginia and cities and counties ; adjacent to a road in Virginia have control over land use; as a consequence, consensus is needed if access management and land ; use are to be adequately coordinated. Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board asked that VDOT increase and improve ; the collaboration with localities along Virginia’s Corridors of Statewide Significance (CoSS) in order to improve the coordination ; between access management planning and land use planning. ; The purpose of this study was to determine the approach that VDOT could take to increase collaboration and to improve ; the quality of collaboration and consensus building in the planning for the CoSS and also for the principal arterials not included ; in the CoSS. The study examined and analyzed the literature on collaboration and consensus building and examined several case ; studies of attempts to incorporate collaboration in transportation planning. ; The study concluded that despite the fact that the incorporation of a fully collaborative process in the negotiations ; between VDOT and localities along the CoSS and along the principal arterials that are not part of the CoSS is not feasible at this ; time, collaboration could be incorporated in negotiations wherever it is deemed useful and feasible to do so. The study also ; concluded that the use of professional facilitators to facilitate meetings would go a long way toward ensuring that the engagement ; among VDOT, local governments, and all stakeholders along all of these corridors would be as collaborative as possible in the ; current environment. ; The recommendations of the study are as follows: ; 1. At a minimum, where feasible, VDOT’s Transportation and Mobility Planning Division (TMPD) should hire ; professional facilitators to organize and lead planning meetings for the CoSS and for the principal arterials not ; included in the CoSS that involve negotiations among VDOT and local governments, stakeholders, and citizens. ; The TMPD’s on-call transportation planning consultant contracts and, in appropriate situations, contracts for ; specific studies should include provisions for the consultant to be able to provide professional facilitator services ; when needed. It is important to ensure that the facilitators used are properly trained and have experience facilitating ; meetings among state departments of transportation and local governments, stakeholders, and the public. ; 2. Where feasible, the TMPD should also use professional facilitators to assist in achieving consensus among ; stakeholders along the principal arterials that are not included in the CoSS.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  101944
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28964/dot_28964_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 314.10 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c01244723076c558ddc94446dcef1e72445fcb597d6fcdcfd9fad6fcda490246