Citizen's Guide to Transportation Decisionmaking

Planning

We recommend that you get involved early to have the greatest impact on developing transportation solutions. Your input, whether verbal or written, is needed early in the transportation decisionmaking process to help shape the quality of life for your community.

You Can Make a Difference

You are essential to the transportation decisionmaking process. The earlier you get involved, the greater your influence will be.

We want you and your family to get to and from work, school, and play safely and on time. Please, help us to serve you better.

Thank you!

To find out where you can get involved, contact your FHWA and FTA office, local transportation planning organization, or State Department of Transportation.

Cartoon of a man too busy for a planning meeting.

The transportation
decisionmaking
process is like a train
with a certain number
of stops.

What if three people
board at every stop,
and each person gets
a vote on where the
train should stop. The
longer you wait to
board and vote, the
harder it will be to
influence the train
route.

It is possible to
influence a project
outcome from the
start. It is more
difficult when you join
the process in the
latter stages.

VISIT OUR WEBSITES

Planning

FHWA www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/

FTA www.fta.dot.gov/planning_environment.html

NEPA

FHWA nepa.fhwa.dot.gov/ReNepa/ReNepa.nsf/home

Public Involvement

FHWA www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/pubinv2.htm

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