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  • Wise Economy Workshop

    Rucker, Della

  • We Can't Hear You! San Diego's Techniques for Getting Balanced Community Input in Major Investment Studies

    Bates & Wahl

  • Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation: A Synthesis of Transit Practice

    Transportation Research Board

  • Understanding and Managing Conflict in Transportation Project Public Involvement

    Barnes & Langworthy

  • TRB Committee on Public Involvement

    TRB

  • Transportation Outreach Planner

    Miami-Dade MPO (FL)

  • The New Laboratories of Democracy: How Local Government is Reinventing Civic Engagement

    McGrath, Mike

  • The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

    EPA

  • Structured Public Involvement in Context-Sensitive Large Bridge Design Using Casewise Visual Evaluation: Case Study of Section 2 of Ohio River Bridges Project

    Bailey, Grossardt, Ripy, Toole, Williams, & Dietrick

  • State of the Practice: White Paper on Public Involvement

    O'Connor, Schwartz, Schaad & Boyd

  • Social Media Guide for Public Involvement

    OCTA (CA)

  • Review of Strategies for Enabling Collaboration Between Transportation Agencies and Native American Tribes

    Martinez, Migliaccio, Albert, & Holley

  • Regional Visioning Public Participation

    Sustainable Pittsburgh

  • Public Preferences on the Use of Visualization in the Public Involvement Process in Transportation Planning

    Cheu, Valdez, Kamatham & Aldouri

  • Public Participation Strategies for Transit

    Giering, Scott

Description

  • ​How to run an effective public meeting when dealing with people who have an agenda.

  • ​The San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB) has undertaken efforts on two corridor projects to expand its public involvement in ways that maximize the range of community views, enhance project design, and build support for the project. In addition to the traditional public meetings, newsletters, and open houses, MTDB has used public relations firms, neutral facilitators, and staff outreach to achieve expanded public involvement goals.

  • This synthesis explores the use of social media among transit agencies and documents successful practices in the United States and Canada. Social media are defined as a group of webbased applications that encourage users to interact with one another, such as blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, and MySpace.

     

     

  • ​The purpose of this project is to understand why public involvement in transportation project planning sometimes fails to reach a resolution that is acceptable to both the agency and the public and to determine how the process could be modified to reduce the likelihood of this outcome. A case study of a very complex and ultimately unsuccessful public involvement effort is described. How public involvement efforts can be modified to better manage specific types of conflict and achieve mutually acceptable results is also described.

  • ​The Transportation Research Board Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation strives to provide meaningful opportunities for information development and exchange on public involvement for transportation agencies and other practitioners.

  • ​Online toolkit from the Miami-Dade MPO to help project managers understand communities and develop outreach strategies in the Miami metropolitan area.

  • ​Active Civic Engagement (PACE) report detailing the innovative methods local governments around the country are using to increase civic engagement.

  • ​The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions.

  • ​The research team extended its structured public involvement (SPI) protocol using casewise visual evaluation (CAVE) to the field of context-sensitive large-scale bridge design. The context-sensitive design process was used for Section 2 of the Louisville Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project. Key design parameters including bridge type, height, symmetry, complexity, and tunnel effect (superstructure shape) were identified by bridge designers. The project demonstrates how an analytic approach to public involvement that integrates technology into the dialogic relationship between designers and the public allows for the achievement of inclusive, successful context-sensitive design even for large, complex infrastructure projects.

  • ​This white paper provides an overview of developments in the evolution of the process of 2-way communication between citizens and government by which transportation agencies and other officials give notice and information to the public and use public input as a factor in decision making.

  • ​OCTA's social media program is integrated into our public outreach efforts. It does not replace-but rather enhances-our ongoing communications and outreach work. OCTA's Public "E-volvement" Program optimizes community involvement and public participation utilizing cost-effective social media tools to create opportunities for meaningful public engagement. In today's ever-changing media landscape with decreasing coverage from the news media and rapidly growing social networking sites, it's crucial to be where the public is.

  • ​This paper identifies and categorizes issues surrounding transportation projects affected by ”or of interest to” tribal communities, and initiatives taken to alleviate issues. It also defines steps for future research in order to refine issues as they are identified in the paper and context-specific strategies implemented to alleviate each issue.

  • ​Selected best practices in visioning with public participation. Those programs selected here for review have successfully engaged the public, and have innovative features and characteristics.

  • ​This study examines public preferences on the use of visualization techniques to involve the public in transportation planning. Two projects were selected, and prototype two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional visualization models were developed. The models were presented at public meetings where stated preference surveys were conducted. The same models were also presented in a survey conducted via the Internet.

  • ​TRB™ Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 89: Public Participation Strategies for Transit documents the state-of-the-practice in terms of public participation strategies to inform and engage the public for transit-related activities. The synthesis also provides ideas and insights into practices and techniques that agencies have found to be most successful, and discusses challenges relating to engaging the public.

Citation

  • ​Journal Title - Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Article Title - PART 6: Light Rail Transit: We Can't Hear You! San Diego's Techniques for Getting Balanced Community Input in Major Investment Studies Volume - Volume 1571 Issue - -1 First Page - 195 Last Page - 207 Issue Cover Date - 1997-01-01 Author - Toni Botte Bates Author - Dennis J. Wahl DOI - 10.3141/1571-25 Link - http://trb.metapress.com/content/X08115K5RX507413

  • ​Journal Title - Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Article Title - Understanding and Managing Conflict in Transportation Project Public Involvement Volume - Volume 1895 Issue - -1 First Page - 102 Last Page - 107 Issue Cover Date - 2004-01-01 Author - Gary Barnes Author - Peter Langworthy DOI - 10.3141/1895-14 Link - http://trb.metapress.com/content/H018384861121T23

  • ​Journal Title - Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Article Title - Structured Public Involvement in Context-Sensitive Large Bridge Design Using Casewise Visual Evaluation: Case Study of Section 2 of Ohio River Bridges Project Volume - Volume 2028 Issue - -1 First Page - 19 Last Page - 27 Issue Cover Date - 2007-12-01 Author - Keiron Bailey Author - Ted Grossardt Author - John Ripy Author - Laura Toole Author - J. B. Williams Author - John Dietrick DOI - 10.3141/2028-03 Link - http://trb.metapress.com/content/G01106864T4R4740

  • ​Journal Title - Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Article Title - Review of Strategies for Enabling Collaboration Between Transportation Agencies and Native American Tribes Volume - Volume 2119 Issue - -1 First Page - 113 Last Page - 119 Issue Cover Date - 2009-12-01 Author - Rebecca M. Martinez Author - Giovanni C. Migliaccio Author - Dexter Albert Author - Terry Holley DOI - 10.3141/2119-14 Link - http://trb.metapress.com/content/XR72W27013718415

  • Journal Title - Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Article Title - Public Preferences on the Use of Visualization in the Public Involvement Process in Transportation Planning Volume - Volume 2245 Issue - -1 First Page - 17 Last Page - 26 Issue Cover Date - 2011-12-01 Author - Ruey Long Cheu Author - Marilyn Valdez Author - Srivatsava Kamatham Author - Raed Aldouri DOI - 10.3141/2245-03 Link - http://trb.metapress.com/content/627V138075183652

  • ​Giering, S. (2011). Public Participation Strategies for Transit. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis No 89. Published by Transportation Research Board, Washington. 96 pp.

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