KTC-00-07
SPR 98-185
"A Recommended Master Plan for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to Build a Partnership with the Public", Theodore Hopwood II, Donald G. Hartman and Lenahan O’Connell
ABSTRACT
Public involvement with proposed projects
is necessary to facilitate their timely implementation by state highway
agencies. New procedures are necessary to involve the public in the
project development process and adequately address their concerns.
Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) researchers and Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet Study Advisory Committee members cooperated to
identify a set of recommended actions to be considered for
implementation by the Cabinet. That work consisted of a series of “internal”
reviews of problems and proposed solutions. That was supplemented by
external reviews and interviews conducted by KTC researchers to identify
“best practices” of other transportation agencies related to
promoting public involvement and enhancing their public image.
The recommended master plan is comprised of four Categories for
Improvement, that addresses12 Principle Initiatives (major goals) that
are to be initiated by 41underlying Key Action Steps. The Master Plan is
to be implemented in a relatively short three-year time frame. It is
intended to support the Cabinet’s adoption of context-sensitive
design, to enhance the Cabinet’s ability to involve the public and
other stakeholders and to bring the Cabinet to a new level of
environmental sensitivity and action.