Abstract
The article presents modern international approaches to public participation in Sustainable Transport System planning. It discusses the causes of social conflicts during the implementation of transport infrastructure projects using the example of implementation of several Polish strategic road infrastructure projects. It provides the assessment of the form, scope, and scale of stakeholders’ involvement in the decision-making process. Among mitigation measures, the authors propose a model solution based on a comprehensive approach to public participation in road infrastructure planning in smart cities and smart villages within a Sustainable Transport System. The proposed idea involves a model of multi-criteria spatial analysis using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) developed in the geographical information systems (GIS) environment, which—apart from technical-functional, environmental, cultural, economic, financial, and social criteria—also encompasses preferences expressed by local community representatives. The model includes eight stages of public participation in the decision-making process, involving all the rungs of a ladder of citizen participation. The presented solution departs from typical social participation methods used in road infrastructure planning processes.
Highlights
Transport infrastructure projects are perceived as catalysts for regions’ competitiveness and as contributing to permanent economic growth in cities and villages [1,2,3]
Citing Poorazizi, Steiniger, and Hunter [45], the development of participatory technologies based on geographical information systems (GIS) systems facilitates the creation of new generation of bottom-up public participatory GIS (PPGIS) platforms that contain content generated by users in a spatial data infrastructure
In the proposed concept of the model, the residents take an active part in the project planning process by determining the significance of specific decision-making criteria and analysing the obtained results together with other social groups
Summary
Transport infrastructure projects are perceived as catalysts for regions’ competitiveness and as contributing to permanent economic growth in cities and villages [1,2,3]. This is especially true for transport infrastructure, including land transport infrastructure such as railroads and roads, bridges, tunnels, roundabouts, cycleways, etc., of smart cities and smart villages within a Sustainable Transport System [4,5]. All procedures related to their development should constitute conscious and planned effort, corresponding with environmental sustainability visions, and be reflected in a rational spatial planning [13,14,15,16] and sustainable land management [17,18]
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