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Whether you are a practitioner, resource specialist or stakeholder - using PlanWorks can improve how you develop, prioritize, and inform transportation plans and projects. Plan Works is a decision support tool, built from the experiences of transportation partners and stakeholders, which provides how-to information when it is most needed.
See how others have used PlanWorks to support real-world projects.
Minnesota DOT used the Decision Guide to assist Stakeholder Collaboration in the development of a Complete Streets plan.
See other examples in PlanWorks in the Real World.
Are you seeking ways to strengthen your collaboration in bicycle and pedestrian planning and project development?
The new Bicycles and Pedestrians Application in PlanWorks provides detailed information on how multimodal transportation can be incorporated into transportation decision-making.
Hear all about it at this recorded webinar.
Do you need assistance selecting performance measures?
PlanWorks contains a framework for picking measures organized around five areas of concern - transportation, environment, economic, community, and cost - and 18 specific factors.
Do you need assistance engaging in visioning?
PlanWorks contains information to assist in accessing the possibilities of visioning, identifying practical steps. and establishing links between vision outcomes and transportation planning and project development process.
If you have any comments, questions, or feedback about this website, please contact:
Gary Jensen
Research Implementation Team Leader
FHWA Office of Human Environment
gary.jensen@dot.gov
PlanWorks: Better planning. Better projects. is a web resource that supports collaborative decision-making in transportation planning and project development. PlanWorks is built around key decision points in long-range planning, programming, corridor planning, and environmental review. PlanWorks suggests when and how to engage cross-disciplinary partners and stakeholder groups. This system can help build consensus throughout these processes.
PlanWorks has four major components:
Decision Guide - A troubleshooting guide describing the common decision points and opportunities for cooperation in the transportation planning and environmental review process. For each of the key decision points, PlanWorks provides policy and stakeholder questions, data needs, case studies and examples, and links to tools that can help support the decision.
Assessments - Interactive assessment tools that enable project stakeholders to identify opportunities to work together, improve interagency cooperation, and expedite project delivery. Assessments can be taken online, or downloaded and used offline collaboratively.
Applications – A series of special topics that provide specific information and approaches for how these topics can be considered in the collaborative decision-making framework. Applications include performance measures, visioning, freight, and many other emerging and complex topics.
Library - A resource library containing relevant case studies and reports of successful interagency cooperation in the transportation planning and environmental review process.
PlanWorks can help you:
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