Why Internal Planning Matters
The process that takes place early on, behind the scenes, within the agency, that focuses on how to execute public involvement for an upcoming transportation project.
What is internal planning?
What do we want to gain from this public involvement effort
What are ideal outcomes?
The TxDOT office that handles PI.
What is the PI Section?
The stakeholders that have all three attributes: power, urgency, and legitimacy.
What are obvious stakeholders?
Your actual PI efforts (e.g., sending notes, holding public meetings, or pop-ups)
What are tactics?
The need to notify the public about transportation project updates, but you don’t necessarily need to interact with them or receive their input.
What is informing?
The unique role that WashDOT included on their planning team.
What is a hydrologist?
Stakeholders who are powerful and legitimate. They have legitimate reasons to be included in the project and they have the ability to act on issues.
What are dominant stakeholders?
The model created and discussed throughout the training.
What is ASIP, or Approach to Strategic Internal Planning?
The desire to interact with the public and get their input/opinion about a transportation project coming either in the near or far future.
What is involving?
Individuals we often outsource PI efforts.
Stakeholders who lack power but have urgent, legitimate claims about a project
What are dependent stakeholders?
The first step in the ASIP model.
What is recognizing the need for PI?
What the publics want or expect from the PI effort
What are expectations?
The mindset to follow when involving people with different expertise on a team.
What is "one team, one purpose?"
Stakeholders who have urgency and power, but lack legitimacy. We tend to overlook these stakeholders because we do not view their concerns as directly relevant to the project, so they lack what we consider legitimacy.
What are overlooked stakeholders?
The tool created to apply the statewide approach to PI for current and future projects.
What is the ASIP tool?
Potential interference in achieving our ideal outcomes
What are obstacles?
How various roles and skillsets work together.
What is cross-pollination?
•A stakeholder that you want to involve in the planning phase for PI because they can provide insight about the best tactics to plan and use with a specific community, and/or are a community influencer/leader whose outward-facing support (or opposition) for the project is key to the progression (or derailment) of the project, and/or have the potential to derail the project’s success.
What are pivotal stakeholders?