An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 4 -- Chicago Case Study Page: VIII
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GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSMENT:
TECHNICAL PLANNING PROCESS
The technical planning process provides the
information that public officials and their con
stituents draw upon in making plans and decisions.
Four guidelines were used to assess the technical
planning process in the nine metropolitan areas:
* Broad, explicit goals and objectives should
guide technical planning and decision
making.
* A range of realistic alternative solutions
should be developed.
* The evaluation of these alternatives should
give balanced consideration to a full range
of goals and objectives.
* A practical and flexible plan for financing
and implementation should be developed.
During visits to each of the nine metropolitan
areas, the study team interviewed the principalrepresentative of the transportation planning
institution and other main participants in the Iocai
planning process. The visits were supplemented by
interviews with UMTA officials in Washington.
Pertinent documents official plans, reports,
studies, and other material-were reviewed in each
case.
The information thus collected was used in
compiling a history of the transit planning process
in each case area, organized around key decisions
such as the decision to study transit, the selection of
a particular transit system, and public ratification
of the decision to pay for and build the system. The
main political, institutional, financial and technical
characteristics affecting the conduct of the plan
ning process were then assessed in light of the
evaluation guidelines.
The same set of guidelines used in assessing each
case metropolitan area was employed in making a
generalized evaluation of the metropolitan ex
perience. The results of the generalized evaluation
are summarized in the report, AnAssessment of
Community Planning for Mass Transit: Summary Report,
issued by the Office of Technology Assessment in
February 1976.
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United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 4 -- Chicago Case Study, report, February 1976; [Washington D.C.]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39349/m1/5/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.