ITR: An Internet Platform to Support Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making

题目：ITR：支持公众参与交通决策的互联网平台本项目开发和评估基于互联网的能力，特别是基于互联网地理信息系统（GIS）技术，以支持交通决策中的参与式建模。该项目有助于对互联网GIS技术设计的认识和理解，可以改善公众在交通规划决策情况下的发言权、知识能力和共享理解。我们通过实现一个原型互联网平台来做出贡献，通过这个平台，各种基于gis的分析审议议程和参与性选择模型可以被设计和实施。互联网地理信息系统平台将对社会产生广泛的影响和益处，它将提供一个技术原型，支持在美国大都市地区常见的三种普遍的交通规划决策环境中加强参与。这项研究的结果很可能是一般性的，足以转移到其他规划范围，例如土地使用和环境，因为需求分析所依据的参与框架在很大程度上是基于公众对决策的授权。加强决策参与是朝着改善地方治理迈出的一步——这是西方民主国家普遍面临的挑战。

AbstractEIA-0325916Nyerges, Timothy Title: ITR: An Internet Platform to Support Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making This project develops and evaluates Internet-hosted capabilities, particularly based on Internet geographic information systems (GIS) technology, to support participatory modeling in transportation decision making. The project makes a contribution to knowledge and understanding about Internet GIS technology designs that can improve the publics' access to voice, competence of knowledge, and shared understanding within transportation planning decision situations. We make that contribution by implementing a prototype Internet platform through which a variety of GIS-based analytic-deliberative agendas and participatory choice models can be designed and implemented. As a broad impact with benefits to society, the Internet GIS platform will provide a technology prototype that supports enhanced participation in three, pervasive, transportation planning decision contexts common to metropolitan areas across the US. The results of the study are likely to be general enough to transfer to other planning contexts such as land use and environment, because the participation framework underlying the needs analysis is based in large part on public empowerment in decisions. Enhancing participation in decision making is a step toward improving local governance - a widespread challenge across western democracies.