Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning: Lessons from experiments in the global south
© National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2020. New data, new technologies, and greater computational power are changing the possibilities for involving stakeholders in transportation planning. This article explores these possibilities by comparing deployments of an interactive w...
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| author | Zegras, C Leape, J Carrasco, JA Navas, C Venter, C Vergel-Tovar, E |
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| description | © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2020. New data, new technologies, and greater computational power are changing the possibilities for involving stakeholders in transportation planning. This article explores these possibilities by comparing deployments of an interactive web-based public transportation mapping system in four cities of the Global South. Structured workshops focused on different public transportation improvement projects and involved different types of stakeholders. Despite the differences across the workshops, they allow for some comparison of the effects. In relation to the technology itself, participants broadly agreed about its usefulness and usability. Pre-/post-workshop surveys suggest that participants learned about the transportation projects presented but reveal modest evidence in relation to other impacts, such as learning about the concept of accessibility, and gaining an appreciation for the potential broader urban system impacts of public transport projects. Knowledge among the participants tended to converge, and the tool helped promote dialog among participants and generated some empathy for others. The workshop experiences provide some hope for such tools in enhancing public transportation planning processes, globally, but ‘‘scaling up’’ the technology would need to overcome institutional, technical, and procedural challenges. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1398502024-03-22T20:13:19Z Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning: Lessons from experiments in the global south Zegras, C Leape, J Carrasco, JA Navas, C Venter, C Vergel-Tovar, E Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2020. New data, new technologies, and greater computational power are changing the possibilities for involving stakeholders in transportation planning. This article explores these possibilities by comparing deployments of an interactive web-based public transportation mapping system in four cities of the Global South. Structured workshops focused on different public transportation improvement projects and involved different types of stakeholders. Despite the differences across the workshops, they allow for some comparison of the effects. In relation to the technology itself, participants broadly agreed about its usefulness and usability. Pre-/post-workshop surveys suggest that participants learned about the transportation projects presented but reveal modest evidence in relation to other impacts, such as learning about the concept of accessibility, and gaining an appreciation for the potential broader urban system impacts of public transport projects. Knowledge among the participants tended to converge, and the tool helped promote dialog among participants and generated some empathy for others. The workshop experiences provide some hope for such tools in enhancing public transportation planning processes, globally, but ‘‘scaling up’’ the technology would need to overcome institutional, technical, and procedural challenges. 2022-02-04T17:05:46Z 2022-02-04T17:05:46Z 2020-10-01 2022-02-04T16:58:57Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0361-1981 2169-4052 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139850 Zegras C, Leape J, Carrasco JA, Navas C, Venter C, Vergel-Tovar E. Scaling Up Innovative Participatory Design for Public Transportation Planning: Lessons from Experiments in the Global South. Transportation Research Record. 2020;2674(12):25-37 en 10.1177/0361198120940998 Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Other repository |
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| title | Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning: Lessons from experiments in the global south |
| title_full | Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning: Lessons from experiments in the global south |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning: Lessons from experiments in the global south |
| title_short | Scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning: Lessons from experiments in the global south |
| title_sort | scaling up innovative participatory design for public transportation planning lessons from experiments in the global south |
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