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Upcoming Events
TCAPP will be presented during ERC's "Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution – Evolving to Meet New Opportunities" conference May 25-27 in Tucson, AZ. For more information, please visit the website. -
Case Study Spotlight
San Antonio Texas kelly Parkway - Ensuring Community Involvement and Environmental Justice in a Highway Capacity Project for urban Socioeconomic Development.
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Upcoming Events
The RFP for pilot testing TCAPP and other SHRP products is now available. Click here if you are interested in using TCAPP to help your transportation project!
Transportation for Communities - Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP) has been created to enhance collaboration in transportation decision making. Anyone involved in transportation plans or projects can benefit from the information and resources accessible here. The basic building block of TCAPP is the Decision Guide. This structure of key decisions common to all transportation agencies contains data to support an understanding of collaboration: why it is necessary, what is needed to support it, and how to make the changes necessary for a truly collaborative process.
It is absolutely essential to have the right people at the table at the right time with the right information to make decisions that stick.
Collaboration Assessment
Not sure exactly what is missing or wrong?
It is often difficult to identify what is going wrong when plans and
projects hit roadblocks. Collaboration Assessment helps to highlight
specific ways in which collaboration might help. This is particularly
useful when:
- Scoping a plan or a project
- Participants are not fully engaged
- Leadership is not supportive
- Gaining consensus has become a barrier
Decision Guide Basics
The Decision Guide represents a new way of considering key decisions within transportation planning, programming, and environmental review. This short tutorial answers the following questions:
How will Understanding the Decision Guide improve my process?
How might I use the Decision Guide?
FHWA
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MPO
State DOT
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Resource Agency
How do Stakeholders collaborate?
Case Studies
Examples of successful projects can offer many insights. Here are some you might find helpful.
Related Research
Continuing research that will enhance TCAPP includes:
- Performance Measurement Framework
- Land Use and Economic Impacts of Projects
- Future Projects as completed
Practical Applications
The best place to start improving collaboration can start with small
improvements that help address a special challenge or need of the agency.
Practical Applications shows
how to use this site to tackle relevant interest areas or challenges.
Some current topics are:
- Linking MPO planning and NEPA
- Programming integrated with fiscal constraint
- Streamlining
New topics will be added in the future or you may develop your own application.