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Description
The planning, design and building of public infrastructure is typically a long-term process and
requires a significant investment of resources. This infrastructure may include transportation
facilities or networks such as highways, bikeways, pedways and trails; associated facilities such
as parking and other mode-transition areas, public and commercial facilities that link to and
complement the transportation system, and pre-existing landscape features that interact with
new transportation facilities. The design and planning process has traditionally focused on
solving the myriad of technical problems facing the transportation professionals with limited
effort expended on the social, cultural, visual and other aspects of the community's context.
These latter items often become critical late in the project and can dictate ultimate success or
failure.
The process of deciding how and where to make transportation investments is straightforward
and in most cases is linked to the physical needs and demands of the system (i.e. safety,
capacity, economic development, etc). Civil engineers and/ or planners who have been exposed
to the technical issues throughout their academic years frequently make these decisions. What
is often forgotten or left until late in the development process is the goal of improving the
human landscape through an appropriate level and type of enhanced investment in public
infrastructure. In short, the goal of improving the human landscape is quickly lost in the
contention over what is to be built and where.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 3/1/04 → 6/30/06 |
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Academy for Community Transportation Innovation
Crabtree, J., Hartman, D. & Toussaint, P.
7/1/02 → 6/30/12
Project: Research project