From February onwards, I will be part of the demographics database evaluation panel that regional council prepares for the transportation planning in the wasatch front region. No doubt the evalutaion panel would serve the purpose for this complex task but there are additional measures that can be taken to avoid any red tapes in this matter.
Some of the key steps should include:
1) Identification of regionwide transportation planning or infrastructure development projects that are under the impact of demographics or that may get impacted by any adjustmens to the demographic database.
2) Once the projects are identified, all the local government agencies, federal agencies, and statewide agencies should be brought on a table for discussion on how the demographics in their project area should be modified and what are their expectations from the projects?
3) On a control total levels for the county bodies, the governor's office of planning and budget should be contacted and control totals be verified. On City level, each city in the region should have an opportunity to adjust the demographics based on their plans.
4) All the input from the above efforts should be incorporated into the demographic dataset, that will make the final data set consistent with all the actors within the region.
Even if we do all of these steps, there will still be room for some hand massaging of the data; in most cases after some miner refinements, the data should be ready to use.
I am hoping this regional transportation plan would be ven better than what we submitted before.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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