How does CSS improve transportation planning when data are limited?
What documentation should a CSS-driven process produce? Transportation planning requires tremendous data inputs; yet, even detailed data collection will remain an abstraction of reality. Projecting future travel requires reliance on these imperfect data, with all their limitations in quality and quantity (completeness). Yet if the transportation plan uses the context as the point of departure and is based on a genuine visioning process, data limitations will be less of an obstacle, and data can be augmented through outreach to particular groups. The resulting transportation plan is one type of documentation. However, all public-involvement events, decisions, partnership agreements, data collection/compilation work, and committee meetings should also be documented. As far as possible, and where the law and trust are not violated, documentation should be readily available to all planning partners. This transparency will lend credibility to the transportation plan, the process, and the pl
