Developing Public Support for Transportation and Mobility: A Guidebook

Mobility—our ability to travel and ship goods between one location and another—is a key element in an advanced socioeconomic system. It is the necessary condition—the ―lifeblood‖—that allows a society to be successful and that provides opportunities to advance in a global marketplace. Planning, funding, operating, and maintaining our multimodal transportation system is, however, a complicated process involving multiple layers of government, private businesses, transportation professionals, and communities. But the people who form those communities often go unheard; they fail to take advantage of opportunities to provide input on transportation needs and thus have no voice in the setting of public policy. This project attempted to change that. It invited the public to one-day workshops held throughout North Dakota. Those workshops had three key goals: to inform the public about the state’s transportation and mobility needs, to explain how public policy affects how those needs are accommodated, and to solicit input on mobility issues and concerns. This report discusses the planning process, agenda development, and findings and recommendations of the workshop.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=626
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• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Authors:
  • Harrington-Hughes, Kathryn
• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 93p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mobility; Multimodal transportation; Public participation; Public policy; Transportation planning; Workshops
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01144484
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 17 2009 2:58PM