Title
Time and Costs of Community Participation in Transport Decision-Making: Transport Action Groups
Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
1999
Subject Area
Social Issues - Community Building, Social Issues - Community strengthening, Social Issues - Consultations, Social Issues - Inclusive communities
Abstract
Participation by the community in a wide range of government decision-making, including transport planning, is increasingly being recognised as important and is supported by the public sector. However little is known about the costs of such participation from the perspective of community groups. The paper introduces the issue of the time and costs of community participation in transport decision-making from the perspective of transport action groups lobbying for change. Firstly it discusses community participation in the decision-making process including the need to develop a greater understanding of the time and resource costs of community participation in transport and environmental decision-making. Theory and evidence on the time and costs of community participation is reviewed. The paper then provides insights into the time and costs of transport lobbying, based on a survey of transport action groups and transport activists in Sydney. The results indicate that time is a more significant limit to participation than money costs. But additional resources may allow time commitments to be reduced and the effectiveness of participation increased.
Recommended Citation
Daniels, R. (1999) Time and Costs of Community Participation in Transport Decision-Making: Transport Actions Groups, Presented at Australasian Transport Research Forum, Perth, 29 September-1 October 1999.
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