Community Visioning in Long-Range Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Virginia

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dc.contributor.authorStich, Bethany Marieen
dc.contributor.committeechairWamsley, Gary L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDudley, Larkin S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMorçöl, Göktuğen
dc.contributor.committeememberPethtel, Ray D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWolf, James F.en
dc.contributor.departmentPublic Administration and Public Affairsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:12:30Zen
dc.date.adate2006-07-11en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:12:30Zen
dc.date.issued2006-05-05en
dc.date.rdate2006-07-11en
dc.date.sdate2006-05-23en
dc.description.abstractThis research is an evaluation of the addition of a citizen involvement process that has come to be known as "visioning" or "community visioning" to the traditional process of developing a state's transportation plan, a process which has typically been very much an in-government and esoteric province of professionals in transportation planning. The research specifically focuses on the Commonwealth of Virginia and its addition of three citizen participation components the Commonwealth labeled "community visioning" to the traditional transportation planning process. The research examines the three components of "community visioning" with regard to: (1) their impact on the state's transportation plan (VTrans2025); (2) the degree to which they met the expectations of the regulations and best practices requirements of federal oversight; (3) the degree to which they met the expectations of the advocates of visioning and of more "democratic participation" in pubic administrative and policy processes; and (4) the degree to which they could affect the final outcome of transportation policy. Visioning is a relatively new approach to citizen involvement in the planning process. It places the citizen involvement at the beginning of the process instead of the end. Visioning asks citizens key questions about what they envision as a positive future for their community. The purpose or goal of this new visioning is to have the final plans reflect the vision drawn from the citizens and public officials and reached through consensus. This dissertation determined that Virginia put forth a good faith effort to involve citizens of the Commonwealth. Collectively, the citizen involvement activities in VA’s visioning process were reasonable and meaningful. Additionally, Virginia’s vision statement was heavily influenced by the citizen participation activities. However, there are three aspects of Virginia’s vision that are troubling from an implementation standpoint. In short, this dissertation found that the vision is what the people want, but the comprehensive plan does not tell the citizens how the Commonwealth intends on achieving that vision.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-05232006-130108en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232006-130108/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/27862en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspart01dissertation.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCommunity Visioningen
dc.subjectTransportation Planningen
dc.subjectParticipatory Democracyen
dc.titleCommunity Visioning in Long-Range Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Virginiaen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic Administration and Public Affairsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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