摘要: |
The purpose of this proposed pilot study is to describe and analyze how current transportation planners in San Bernardino County make decisions on prioritizing transportation issues and deciding where limited funds are to be spent. Specifically, this research project will employ a telephone survey of key Transportation Planners, City Engineers, Transportation Managers, and/or Traffic Engineers at the city, county, and regional levels to shed light on sources of information and procedures used by planners when making decisions concerning the relative importance and funding of potential and competing transportation projects. In addition to surveys of "technical" people, selected elected officials will be interviewed for their political observations. It is the intention of the Principal Investigators to use the data collected to write at least one article for publication in a refereed journal. But perhaps a more important outcome is that it is anticipated that data gathered from this pilot study (and future "full-blown" studies) will be used by CSUSB's Leonard Transportation Center to enhance its presence as a major source of transportation data/information to be used by Transportation Planners, Engineers, and policy-makers in the two-county area. |