Css class 8 multi-disciplinary teaming 120309

Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning, Environmental

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CSS and Multi-Disciplinary Project

Teaming

Class 8


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“Transit agencies typically keep the public at bay by having only two phases for their projects:

The first phase when it is just too early to give the public all the facts, and the second phase when it is too late to stop the project.” — Earnest Fitzgerald


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• Team composition

• Member selection

• Leadership• Organization• Communication• Quality

assurance• Costs

Learning Outcomes


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Why Multi-Disciplinary?

Because everyone does not view the project from the same

perspective!


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Why Multi-Disciplinary?

• Good public relations tool• Opens line of communication• Provides documentation to defer/defend

lawsuits• Can involve elected officials• Develops communuity relationships• Gives more people a stake in the project’s

success


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MD Team Composition

• Professionals• Volunters/Ameteurs• Internal and

external• Disciplines• Geography


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Volunteers/Ameteurs

Key Community Leaders/LaisonsCommunity OrganizationsNeighborhood GroupsCitizen Action CommitteesOther Public EntitiesLocal BusinessesCharter OrganizationsIndividualsState, Federal and Local Agencies


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Disciplines

EngineersEnvironmental ScientistsTransportation PlannersLandscape ArchitectsConstruction ProfessionalsHistorical Architects/HistoriansArchaeologistsCommunity PlannersMaintenance ProfessionalsLand Acquisition SpecialistsGeologistsTransportation ModelersSocial ScientistsEconomists


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Who Selects Teams?

• State Elected Officials• DOT Management

• General Application Process

• Key Community Leader Surveys

• Local Government Input


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When Are Teams Formed?

• Prior to Purpose & Need33%

• Scoping Process 36%• Range of Alternative Selection 13%• Preferred Alternative Selection 0%• Other – Project Dependent 19%


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Successful Delivery

Step OneStart with the right team and

involve the public.

Step TwoWork collaboratively on scope,

design, review, and construction.

Step ThreeEvaluate continuously so you

can make improvements.

Step FourImplement a construction program that works for all

parties.Step Five

Celebrate your accomplishments as a team

and lessons learned.Building Projects that Build Communitieswww.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/PAandI/PAIHP.html


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Who Does What

• Clarify roles and responsibilites– Advisory– Descision-making


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Impacts of MD Teams• State Perspective from NCHRP

Synthesis 37-01– Greater public acceptance – Expidited project delivery – Delayed project delivery – Shared funding through partnerships – Anable to determine – No change - 0%


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MD Decision Triggers


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Discussion

As a multi-disciplinary team leader, what type of

professional do you think would be moreresponsive and engaging to

stakeholders in atransportation project?• Engineer, Landscape Architect,

Planner, etc.


Analysis and DesignMD Team Examples


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Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Houston District LAMP

• Houston District Personnel• Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)

• Environmental Management Program• Consultant Project Design Team

• Engineers, Architects, Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, and Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County

• Green Ribbon Committee• Representatives from various arts, cultural, civic, business,

environmental groups and local government officials, to assist TxDOT in obtaining feedback. Through their time and effort developed consensus-based design criteria that will long serve the Houston District

• Implementation Team• Consultant design team and appointed members by the

District Engineer

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TxDOT Lubbock District LAMP• Karen Murfee - Keep Lubbock Beautiful• Michael Bartell - Lubbock MPO• Randy Truesdale – Lubbock Director of Parks &

Recreation• Ed Stiles - Stiles, Wallace & Associates• Larry F. Best - T.G. Trees & Garden Center• Tim Oliver - Oliver Landscape, Inc.• TxDOT Personnel

– Kathy Wickam – Ron Baker – Ann Finley – Ted Moore – Jerry Cash – Tedd Carter– Barrie Cogburn

• Beverly Storey, Texas Transportation Institute

MD Team Examples


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• NCHRP Synthesis 37-01• Building Projects that Build

Communities• www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/PAandI/

PAIHP.html

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