Transportation Planning and Public Participation

Ted Grossardt is the founder and president of VoxPopuli. He currently consults on a range of public infrastructure planning and design projects and teaches graduate courses in transportation planning and public participation. He served as the Decision Support Systems Research Manager at the University of Kentucky’s Transportation Research Center for 15 years, where he and Dr. Bailey formed their foundational collaboration. He continues to deliver public participation workshops to engineers and planners throughout the US and Europe. Keiron Bailey is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. He delivers national and international public engagement workshops, training classes, seminars and presentations, and he collaborates with governments, NGOs, and private industry on public involvement protocols. His work has been instrumental in numerous transportation and land use planning, transit-oriented development, and highway safety design projects.

Part I: Theory1. Public Participation in Transportation Planning and Design2. Justice and the Arnstein Gap3. Participation Performance Frameworks

Part II: Process4. Project Formation and Public Participation Process Considerations5. Gathering Information: Feedback Tools and Mechanics6. Dialog and Outcomes: Process Design With a Purpose

Part III: Practice7 Advanced Multi-Criteria Applications8. Learning by Doing: Development of CAVE and SPI9. The Problem in ReView10. What Is To Be Done?

Appendix: ResourcesTopical Guide to Projects and Research PapersProject Context Analysis WorksheetORID Question Design Guide