Removing Roadblocks to Equity and Inclusion: The NC Moves 2050 Story
With Nastasha Earle-Young and Dominique Boyd
This presentation will cover the different forms of public engagement that were used during the process of updating the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Statewide Long-Range Multimodal Transportation Plan called NC Moves 2050, which engaged 3 million people across the state of North Carolina!
Speakers from NCDOT will detail the process that was used to send out mass surveys, from an address selection process to working with the Post Office to get a Business Reply permit and inputting responses into MetroQuest, NCDOT’s standard format for the Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) survey. Through a more collaborative, cooperative and comprehensive process, potential public engagement roadblocks were identified and a more strategic approach was taken to engage the public at large.
The session will also discuss the response and results of the survey as well as issues, limitations, and lessons learned. These include the process of creating both paper and online surveys; understanding resource management for the manual data entry of paper surveys; and difficulties translating certain MetroQuest survey elements in a paper survey.
Takeaways:
You will leave this session with an understanding of:
- How to use existing relationships to leverage new opportunities for engaging individuals outside of MPO activities;
- Effective tools and techniques for successful virtual events;
- Creating interactive and polling questions