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Lesson 8 for Grad Course on CSS (from UTCM Report #08-14-03 "Making Mobility Improvements a Community Asset: Transportation Improvements Using Context-Sensitive Solutions")TRANSCRIPT
Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning, Environmental
Analysis and Design
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CSS and Multi-Disciplinary Project
Teaming
Class 8
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Analysis and Design
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“Transit agencies typically keep the public at bay by having only two phases for their projects:
The first phase when it is just too early to give the public all the facts, and the second phase when it is too late to stop the project.” — Earnest Fitzgerald
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Analysis and Design
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• Team composition
• Member selection
• Leadership• Organization• Communication• Quality
assurance• Costs
Learning Outcomes
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Why Multi-Disciplinary?
Because everyone does not view the project from the same
perspective!
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Analysis and Design
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Why Multi-Disciplinary?
• Good public relations tool• Opens line of communication• Provides documentation to defer/defend
lawsuits• Can involve elected officials• Develops communuity relationships• Gives more people a stake in the project’s
success
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MD Team Composition
• Professionals• Volunters/Ameteurs• Internal and
external• Disciplines• Geography
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Volunteers/Ameteurs
Key Community Leaders/LaisonsCommunity OrganizationsNeighborhood GroupsCitizen Action CommitteesOther Public EntitiesLocal BusinessesCharter OrganizationsIndividualsState, Federal and Local Agencies
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Disciplines
EngineersEnvironmental ScientistsTransportation PlannersLandscape ArchitectsConstruction ProfessionalsHistorical Architects/HistoriansArchaeologistsCommunity PlannersMaintenance ProfessionalsLand Acquisition SpecialistsGeologistsTransportation ModelersSocial ScientistsEconomists
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Who Selects Teams?
• State Elected Officials• DOT Management
• General Application Process
• Key Community Leader Surveys
• Local Government Input
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When Are Teams Formed?
• Prior to Purpose & Need33%
• Scoping Process 36%• Range of Alternative Selection 13%• Preferred Alternative Selection 0%• Other – Project Dependent 19%
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Successful Delivery
Step OneStart with the right team and
involve the public.
Step TwoWork collaboratively on scope,
design, review, and construction.
Step ThreeEvaluate continuously so you
can make improvements.
Step FourImplement a construction program that works for all
parties.Step Five
Celebrate your accomplishments as a team
and lessons learned.Building Projects that Build Communitieswww.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/PAandI/PAIHP.html
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Who Does What
• Clarify roles and responsibilites– Advisory– Descision-making
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Impacts of MD Teams• State Perspective from NCHRP
Synthesis 37-01– Greater public acceptance – Expidited project delivery – Delayed project delivery – Shared funding through partnerships – Anable to determine – No change - 0%
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MD Decision Triggers
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Discussion
As a multi-disciplinary team leader, what type of
professional do you think would be moreresponsive and engaging to
stakeholders in atransportation project?• Engineer, Landscape Architect,
Planner, etc.
Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning, Environmental
Analysis and DesignMD Team Examples
Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning, Environmental
Analysis and Design
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Houston District LAMP
• Houston District Personnel• Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)
• Environmental Management Program• Consultant Project Design Team
• Engineers, Architects, Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, and Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County
• Green Ribbon Committee• Representatives from various arts, cultural, civic, business,
environmental groups and local government officials, to assist TxDOT in obtaining feedback. Through their time and effort developed consensus-based design criteria that will long serve the Houston District
• Implementation Team• Consultant design team and appointed members by the
District Engineer
MD Team Examples
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TxDOT Lubbock District LAMP• Karen Murfee - Keep Lubbock Beautiful• Michael Bartell - Lubbock MPO• Randy Truesdale – Lubbock Director of Parks &
Recreation• Ed Stiles - Stiles, Wallace & Associates• Larry F. Best - T.G. Trees & Garden Center• Tim Oliver - Oliver Landscape, Inc.• TxDOT Personnel
– Kathy Wickam – Ron Baker – Ann Finley – Ted Moore – Jerry Cash – Tedd Carter– Barrie Cogburn
• Beverly Storey, Texas Transportation Institute
MD Team Examples
Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning, Environmental
Analysis and Design
• NCHRP Synthesis 37-01• Building Projects that Build
Communities• www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/PAandI/
PAIHP.html
Resource
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