United States Department of Transportation
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TRIS Online Accession Number:1036476
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Abstract:This project focused on the use of collaborative practices to address a range of transportation planning and development issues. The project had four primary objectives: develop increased awareness among state officials of opportunities for the use of collaborative processes and collaborative governance systems in the transportation arena; identify one (or more) transportation collaboration opportunity in at least two states; identify collaborative training opportunities; and develop and test a detailed assessment tool for use in identifying and designing transportation collaborations. The National Policy Consensus Center (NPCC) team developed and tested an assessment tool/questionnaire to use in interviewing state officials and other stakeholders during site visits. The assessment questionnaire was designed to collect information in four areas of interest: (1) issues, barriers and obstacles to transportation planning and project development; (2) current communication and coordination methods; (3) use of collaborative approaches; and (4) future opportunities for collaboration and training. The project team made site visits to four states: Utah, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Virginia. Altogether over 60 interviews were conducted. Interview summaries for each of the four states are contained in Section III of this report. A number of themes emerged from the site visits and interviews in the four states. For the most part, the following issues and themes were mentioned in all four states or in at least three of the four states: Challenges of transportation-land use coordination; Need for improved coordination and collaboration between metropolitan planning organizations/local governments and state/federal transportation agencies; Importance of early involvement of environmental/resource agencies in transportation planning; Need for modal coordination and multi-modal planning; Critical role of political leadership in promoting collaboration on transportation issues; and Development and institutionalization of collaborative systems. Section IV elaborates on these themes and provides recommendations for follow up.
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