摘要: |
Statewide planning requires a variety of transportation system, land use, passenger, freight, demographic, economic, and environmental data from many different federal, state, regional, and local sources. Establishing effective partnerships for sharing data can optimize available resources and enhance the quality of data brought to the decision-making process. Evidence also shows that sharing data early in the decision-making process increases stakeholder support and decreases process timeframes. Connecting disparate data sets is often complicated by cultural and institutional factors, as well as how data are defined, collected, derived, stored, and managed. New technologies for collecting data are raising additional challenges relative to data translation, data archiving, and the integration of spatial data with differing accuracies. |