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Public Participation In Transportation: An Emperical Test For Authentic Participation, Jorge Cesar Figueredo
Public Participation In Transportation: An Emperical Test For Authentic Participation, Jorge Cesar Figueredo
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This dissertation examines the public participation activities of State Departments of Transportation (SDOTs) in the United States. A review of existing literature and legal frameworks suggests that an "authentic" public participation results when dimensions of representativeness, use of public inputs, interactiveness, and quality of citizen inputs have been achieved. The study sought to identify conditions that serve as measurements that must presumably be satisfied for authenticity to exist in public participation. The result was a Model of Authentic Public Participation that served as the basis for creation of a new four-tiered methodology to assess the performance of these districts relative …
Participation: A Model Of Individual Willingness To Participate In The Transportation Planning Process, Michael Neidhart
Participation: A Model Of Individual Willingness To Participate In The Transportation Planning Process, Michael Neidhart
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This study sought to identify the key determinants that lead individuals to participate in the transportation planning process. Two models of participation, one for the short-term and another for the long-term, were developed to test whether the key internal and external determinants are responsible for influencing a person's willingness to participate. The data for this study came from a mail-back survey that was administered to a random sample of 570 individuals throughout the State of Florida for a response rate of 37.37 percent. The results indicate that the internal motivational determinants exert more influence on a person's short-term willingness to …