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Title:

What Can Transportation Planning Learn from Place-Based Public Engagement Method?

Accession Number:

01660421

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Since the 1970s, mainstreaming public engagement remains one of the crucial factors for the evolution of transportation planning practice. Despite the range of efforts aimed at advancing participatory planning practices, the need for the further development and implementation of public engagement methods remains. Nowadays, in addition to traditional participatory methods, the palette has been expanded with a variety of digital and web-based tools. This research focuses on place-based method in particular. The method is formalized as web-based geographic-information-systems questionnaire for anonymized responding, with capability to collect quantitative and qualitative georeferenced input. Furthermore, this research aims to advance the conceptual framework and provide lessons from implementing place-based method in transportation planning projects. Analysis draws on experience from 47 transportation planning projects implementing place-based method across the US, UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand. Moreover, analysis includes an expert survey, revealing further empirical insight. Reviewed projects range with respect to transportation mode, project type and spatial scale. Furthermore, results show implemented questionnaire features and resulting number of respondents and data points. Expert survey results provide a summary of reasons for using online participation, and benefits and challenges from using online participation based on place-based method. Discussion provides reflection on pro (e.g., data volume, inclusiveness, flexibility, experiential insight, technological integration, and culture creation) and contra place-based method (e.g., digital divide, technological stress, expert misuse, qualitative data quantity). Conclusive recommendations provide organizational learning lessons on implementing digital public engagement tools, developing participation strategies, and advancing agency’s practices in general.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA60 Standing Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-04172

Language:

English

Authors:

Mladenovic, Milos N
Forss, Kirsi
Guy, Mathilde
Kahila, Maarit
Rüppell, Timo

Pagination:

12p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-04172

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:01AM