US Department of Transportation

PlanWorks provides information at the Key Decisions in long-range planning, programming, corridor planning, and environmental review to show when and how to engage partners and stakeholders. This system can help streamline decisions throughout these phases by assisting practitioners to engage the right people at the right time with the right information.

PlanWorks has four major components:

• Decision Guide - A framework identifying the common decisions and opportunities for cooperation in the transportation planning and environmental review process. For each of the Key Decisions, PlanWorks provides policy and stakeholder questions, data needs, case studies and examples, and links to other related decisions.

• Assessments - Interactive assessment tools that enable practitioners to improve communication and cooperation during plans and projects, as well as expedite project delivery. Assessments can be taken online, or downloaded and used offline collaboratively.

• Applications – A series of relevant topics that provide specific information and approaches for how these topics can be considered in the collaborative decision making framework. Applications include performance measures, visioning, freight, and many other emerging and complex topics.

• Library - A resource library containing relevant case studies and reports of successful collaboration in the transportation planning and environmental review process.

PlanWorks can help you:

• Identify and overcome barriers when plans and projects of all scales hit roadblocks.
• Access detailed information about decisions made in long range planning, corridor planning, programming, or environmental review.
• Diagnose specific barriers and strategies to address those through improved collaboration.
• Integrate new and emerging topics into the decision-making process.

Please visit Wizard for assistance in where to begin.