The Role of Planning in a 21st Century State Department of Transportation—Supporting Strategic Decisionmaking (2015) / Chapter Skim
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1 Today the secretary of any state department of transportation (DOT) faces a daunting task.
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2 The role of Planning in a 21st Century State Department of Transportation -- Supporting Strategic Decisionmaking roads if paying for them means new taxes, and demographics and travel patterns are shifting. The priority for most DOTs today is maintaining and operating the system -- a more tactical than strategic view of the agency's purpose.
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Summary 3 goals. Finally, planners can support DOT leadership by providing the complex data analysis and performance measurement that is increasingly important to inform decisionmaking and to demonstrate DOT accountability to the public and elected officials.
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4 The role of Planning in a 21st Century State Department of Transportation -- Supporting Strategic Decisionmaking In many ways, academic planning programs have kept pace with the evolving nature of the planning field, and they have also been at the forefront of championing these changes. The planning programs of today are multimodal and innovative, encouraging future planners to understand that transportation affects the quality of life of every community and encouraging innovative and creative outreach to tap into the core vision and values that reflect that quality of life.
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Summary 5 be broad and visionary thinkers. Many of the decisions will be familiar to planners, but the changing role of DOTs will require changes in what planning and planners do.
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