01663343

Component

Despite the advances in urban transportation planning in the past, plans often seem to accomplish much less than their established objectives. The lack of integration between land use and transportation within planning and decision-making processes is frequently reported as the cause of many problems planners face. Planning practice must incorporate theoretical and methodological contributions to try to ‘reframe the problem’ and hence avoid opposition and conflicts towards decisions. This paper aims to address the existing methodological gap regarding current urban transportation decision support systems in face of the latest contributions to urban transportation planning. It focuses specifically on the early stages of the planning process, seeking to highlight the importance of diagnosis for planning and its relevance to the later definition of objectives. The problem-oriented approach to decision-making supported by a planning process focused on diagnosis discussed here aims to encompass accessibility as the new focus of integrated land use and transportation planning, as well as a communicative approach where stakeholder participation helps in dealing with problem framing issues. Finally, the diagnosis is presented here as a set of systematic activities to support a learning process through stakeholder participation that leads to evidence-based solutions to multidimensional issues.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Standing Committee on Transportation and Land Development.

18-06434

English

6p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References

Accessibility; Decision support systems; Land use planning; Transportation planning; Urban transportation

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06434

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:40AM