Cost-Effective High-Performance Local Mobility Study Using Structured Public Involvement: Case Study Versailles, KY

Cities are facing hard choices regarding transportation options. Mobility and access alternatives entail financial, environmental and other costs that impact different groups in different ways. Environmental Justice (EJ) is mandated. Public involvement is essential, and, in the face of tight budgets, public involvement protocols must be as efficient as possible and they must offer maximum documented performance. The Structured Public Involvement (SPI) protocol developed by the authors has been applied successfully to a wide range of infrastructure planning and design questions. These protocols have demonstrated high performance across four criteria including C, clarity of design guidance and Q, anonymous real-time stakeholder process evaluations. This research reports on the cost-effective adaptation of an SPI protocol for a local-scale mobility study for Versailles, Kentucky. The integration of public input data into a rational decision framework is explained. This research demonstrates a practical, efficient and high-performance method of involving citizens cost-effectively in local scale mobility option development and evaluation. Using a performance Q-metric of anonymous, real-time participant evaluation at open public meetings to measure process quality encourages more sustainable outcomes, both in terms of engineering outcomes and process legitimacy. Land use decision makers found the data useful. This study demonstrates (a) that high performance public involvement is not diametrically opposed to small-scale questions or local budgets and (b) that certain EJ aims are supported by such high performance public involvement delivery. The need for complementary EJ process and limits to the overall process design are considered.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA00 Transportation System Policy, Planning and Process. Alternate title: Cost-Effective High-Performance Local Mobility Study Using Structured Public Involvement: Case Study of Versailles, Kentucky.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Bailey, Keiron
  • Grossardt, Ted
  • Ripy, John
  • Creasey, F Thomas
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 19p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Cities; Cost effectiveness; Decision making; Environmental justice; Land use planning; Mobility; Planning and design; Public participation
• Geographic Terms: Versailles (Kentucky)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516677
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2221
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2014 6:12PM