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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
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Subject/TRT Terms:
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Access Control (Transportation) Case Studies Consensus Cooperation Land Use Planning Literature Reviews Recommendations Transportation Corridors
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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Funding:
101944
Collection(s):
US Transportation Collection
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