Paper published by Traffic Engineering & Control
March 2000, vol. 41, issue 3, pp 88 - 92
Public Participation in Transport Decisions
by Nick Tyler and Natasha Brown
Abstract
This paper is associated with our previous paper published in TEC in October
1999 (Brown & Tyler 1999). The first paper concerned the technical
issues to be considered when locating bus stops in rural areas. The
public should be involved as part of that process, as the local community
usually has opinions about the location of bus stops. This second paper
sets out to raise some of the issues pertinent to public participation
in transport decisions in general. This is of special importance as “public
participation” is seen as a necessary element of Local/Interim Transport
Plans and public consultation is increasingly seen as essential in the
assessment of requests for funding (e.g. the European Commission, The Countryside
Agency etc.). We have examined a number of the public participation exercises
undertaken in research at UCL. This paper uses these examples to illustrate
some of the problems and opportunities that arose.
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