FHWA Public Involvement Publications

• How to Engage Low-Literacy and Limited-English-Proficiency Populations in Transportation Decisionmaking
  FHWA-HEP-06-009 – Although English is the predominant language spoken in this country, the 2000 Census estimated that 17.9 percent of the Nation's population spoke a language other than English at home. It is Federal Highway Administration policy to provide "meaningful access" to transportation decisionmaking to all affected and interested people.  Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency, requires this outreach include people of limited English proficiency.  Combined with nondiscrimination statutes, meaningful access would extend to people who cannot read and understand what is read; thus, the need to include outreach to low-literate populations as well. This report documents "best practices" in identifying and engaging low-literacy and limited-English-proficiency populations in transportation decisionmaking.

• Public Involvement Techniques
  This is a reference work that makes a wide variety of public involvement techniques available to transportation agencies. It includes the 14 techniques originally published in Innovations in Public Involvement for Transportation Planning as well as new techniques on community-based organizations, electronic media and reaching out to ethnic, minority and low-income groups and people with disabilities. 

• Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decision-Making
  Pub. No. FHWA-PD-96-031, -- This is a reference work that makes a wide variety of public involvement techniques available to transportation agencies. It includes the 14 techniques originally published in Innovations in Public Involvement for Transportation Planning. There are four chapters with subsections that group techniques thematically by function.

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