Public Participation in Transport Decisions

by Nick Tyler and Natasha Brown

Abstract

This paper is associated with our previous paper published in TEC in October 1999 (Brown & Tyler 1999). The first paper concerned the technical issues to be considered when locating bus stops in rural areas. The public should be involved as part of that process, as the local community usually has opinions about the location of bus stops. This second paper sets out to raise some of the issues pertinent to public participation in transport decisions in general. This is of special importance as “public participation” is seen as a necessary element of Local/Interim Transport Plans and public consultation is increasingly seen as essential in the assessment of requests for funding (e.g. the European Commission, The Countryside Agency etc.). We have examined a number of the public participation exercises undertaken in research at UCL. This paper uses these examples to illustrate some of the problems and opportunities that arose.

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