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Citizen Participation: An Administrative Strategy for Transportation Improvement

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Structuring effective citizen participation strategies is a difficult task which tends to be neglected in transportation improvement. Primary effort is devoted to elegant patronage models, innovative modes of transportation, and engineering design. However, if realistic citizen participation is neglected, a project will seldom be implemented, because the level of public support needed to adopt the plan and sustain criticism which arises during construction will not have been developed.

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  1. School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

    Gordon J. Fielding

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  1. University of Surrey, Guildford, England

    Peter Stringer

  2. Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, Munich, West Germany

    H. Wenzel

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Fielding, G.J. (1976). Citizen Participation: An Administrative Strategy for Transportation Improvement. In: Stringer, P., Wenzel, H. (eds) Transportation Planning for a Better Environment. Nato Conference Series, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8861-0_33

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