Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 1: Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment (2013) / Chapter Skim
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65 Scenario planning workshops have been shown to be very engaging as well as effective in gathering input and feedback on freight transportation infrastructure investments from a diverse group of stakeholders. Clearly, running a workshop is not sufficient by itself to determine investment priorities and strategies.
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66 Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment to help visualize which phases can be better served by scenario planning practices, we propose a simplified diagram, Figure 17, to summarize the relevant parts of the process. Long-term transportation planning usually includes a vision, the desired condition of the region inside the expected future world.
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integration into established Planning Process 67 the strategic planning phase and continues clockwise through corridor planning to fiscal planning, then financial planning and finally to implementation. Not all projects make it through all phases of the process.
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68 Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment program (TIP)
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Integration into Established Planning Process 69 Note: wrt = with respect to. Figure 20.
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70 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment standardize planning steps and collaborative transportation decision-making processes across different states. The description of each step is too lengthy to include here, but can be found online at http:// www.transportationforcommunities.com/shrpc01/.
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integration into established Planning Process 71 particular projects for the region. This is done by asking a participant to envision the region in one of the four scenarios and to identify corridors and/or strategies the region should have for the planning organization to best fulfill its overarching mission in that scenario.
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72 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment 5. Development Impact -- Impact on land use and current long-term regional growth strategy.
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integration into established Planning Process 73 In either method, the general approach is to add the results of the scenario planning workshop as one element within the decision-making process. Of course, by selecting investments one by one, we are ignoring system effects.
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