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")

1. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Class 8 Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
CSS and Multi-Disciplinary
Project Teaming
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2. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
“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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3. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Learning Outcomes Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• Team composition
• Member selection
• Leadership
• Organization
• Communication
• Quality assurance
• Costs
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4. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Why Multi-Disciplinary? Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
Because everyone does not view the project
from the same perspective!
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5. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Why Multi-Disciplinary? Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• 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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6. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
MD Team Composition Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• Professionals
• Volunters/Ameteurs
• Internal and external
• Disciplines
• Geography
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7. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Volunteers/Ameteurs Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
Key Community Leaders/Laisons
Community Organizations
Neighborhood Groups
Citizen Action Committees
Other Public Entities
Local Businesses
Charter Organizations
Individuals
State, Federal and Local Agencies
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8. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Disciplines Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
Engineers
Environmental Scientists
Transportation Planners
Landscape Architects
Construction Professionals
Historical Architects/Historians
Archaeologists
Community Planners
Maintenance Professionals
Land Acquisition Specialists
Geologists
Transportation Modelers
Social Scientists
Economists
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9. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Who Selects Teams? Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• State Elected Officials
• DOT Management
• General Application Process
• Key Community Leader Surveys
• Local Government Input
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10. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
When Are Teams Formed? Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• Prior to Purpose & Need 33%
• Scoping Process 36%
• Range of Alternative Selection 13%
• Preferred Alternative Selection 0%
• Other – Project Dependent 19%
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11. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Successful Delivery Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
Step One
Start with the right team and
involve the public.
Step Two
Work collaboratively on
scope, design, review, and
construction.
Step Three
Evaluate continuously so you can
make improvements.
Step Four
Implement a construction program
that works for all parties.
Step Five
Celebrate your accomplishments as
Building Projects that Build Communities a team and lessons learned.
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12. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Who Does What Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• Clarify roles and responsibilites
– Advisory
– Descision-making
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13. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Impacts of MD Teams Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• 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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14. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
MD Decision Triggers Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
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15. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Discussion Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
As a multi-disciplinary team leader, what type of
professional do you think would be more
responsive and engaging to stakeholders in a
transportation project?
• Engineer, Landscape Architect, Planner, etc.
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16. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
MD Team Examples Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design

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MD Team Examples 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
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MD Team Examples Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
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
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19. Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation
Resource Planning, Environmental Analysis and Design
• NCHRP Synthesis 37-01
• Building Projects that Build Communities
• www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/PAandI/PAIHP.html
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