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Focus: AAG 2014 Nystrom Competition Papers

The Role of Location and Cost in Individual Choices of Transportation Improvement Projects

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Pages 527-540 | Published online: 16 Sep 2015
 

Abstract

Transportation improvement programming is a process in which substantial resources are allocated to transportation infrastructure projects based on public input. This article reports on individual choice making in the context of a Web-based platform for public participation in transportation improvement programming. Based on the locations of the proposed transportation projects, we determined the extent to which the location and the cost of transportation projects informed individual choices regarding selections of road and transit projects. The presented analysis aims at uncovering factors that inform the choices of individuals in the context of transportation improvement programming along the dimensions of self-centered and selfless decision making. Such insight garners understanding of the requirements of and expectation toward Web-based public participation systems and participatory processes. Our results indicate a prevalence of preferences for projects within the vicinity of the individual’s home, work, and travel locations. In addition, the participants opted for project funding mechanisms under which regular residents, who might not benefit directly from a project, would pay more than the participants who selected the projects. These behavioral patterns evidence predominately self-centered choice-making behavior of participants in deliberation-centric, web-based transportation planning.

交通改善计划,是一个根据公众的投入,分派大量资源给交通基础建设计画的过程。本文报导一个公众参与运输改善计画的互联网平台脉络中的个人决策。根据提出的运输计画地点,我们测定运输计画的地点和花费影响个人的道路及运输计画选择的程度。本文呈现的分析,目标在于揭露在运输改善计划的脉络中,随着利己主义和利他的决策面向,影响个人选择的因素。此般洞见,获得对于以互联网为基础的公众参与系统和参与过程的需求及期待之理解。我们的研究结果显示出,人们普遍偏好个人家户、工作和旅游地点邻近处的计画。此外,参与者所选择的计画补助机制中,一般住民或许无法直接从该计画中获益,但却可能或较选择该计画者付出更多的金钱。这些行为模式,证明参与者在以审议为核心、根据互联网的运输规划中,绝大部份是出自利己的决策行为。

Mejorar la programación del transporte es un proceso por medio del cual se asignan recursos sustanciales a los proyectos de infraestructura del sector con base en la participación del público. Este artículo informa sobre las decisiones de los individuos para escoger dentro del contexto de una plataforma basada en la Web para participación pública en la mejora de programación relacionada con transporte. Con base en las localizaciones de los proyectos de transporte propuestos, determinamos el alcance con el que la localización y el costo de tales propuestas indujeron las decisiones individuales para seleccionar los proyectos de carreteras y tránsito. El análisis que se presenta busca descubrir los factores que influyen las escogencias individuales en el contexto de mejora en la programación del transporte dentro del ámbito de la toma de decisiones egoístas y desinteresadas. Este enfoque favorece la comprensión de los requisitos exigidos y las expectativas anticipadas hacia los sistemas de participación pública basados en la Web, lo mismo que el entendimiento de los procesos participativos. Nuestros resultados muestran una prevalencia de preferencias por los proyectos que se ubican en cercanías a la morada del individuo, el trabajo y las localidades del viaje. Además, los participantes optaron por mecanismos de financiación de los proyectos bajo los cuales los residentes regulares, que podrían no beneficiarse directamente de un proyecto, pagarían más que los participantes que seleccionaron los proyectos. Estos patrones de conducta evidencian una conducta predominantemente egoísta en la decisión de escogencia en una planificación del transporte centrada en deliberación y basada en la Web.

Notes

1 Resulting, for instance, from unfamiliarity with geographic locations of projects and city areas, transit-based transportation alternatives, and non-car-centric lifestyle choices.

2 Such analysis might be conceptualized within the context of the NIMBY phenomenon. It is fair to say that the geographic analysis presented here explored aspects of its complement; that is, the yes-in-my-backyard phenomenon.

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Notes on contributors

Martin Swobodzinski

MARTIN SWOBODZINSKI is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Director of the Center for Spatial Analysis and Research at Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests include individual choice-making behavior, participatory planning, human–computer interaction, data mining, and spatial cognition.

Piotr Jankowski

PIOTR JANKOWSKI is a Professor in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4493, and the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. E-mail: [email protected]. His research interests include spatial decision support systems, public-participation GIS, visual analytics, geocomputation methods, and volunteered geographic information.

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