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🚦 Ready to start paving the way for more community-driven transportation planning in your organization?

The people in our communities are the true experts on their daily journeys. But how can we capture their knowledge and turn it into actionable data? A digital, map-based approach to community engagement is transforming transportation planning for good—making it more accessible, data-driven, and reflective of local needs.

Join us next Tuesday, November 5th at 10 AM EST for our webinar: Inclusive Transportation Planning with Map-based Engagement.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

💡 Implement best practices for map-based engagement in transportation planning.
💡 Leverage digital tools to effectively engage diverse stakeholder groups.
💡 Streamline data gathering and analysis using GIS solutions.
💡 Run successful, community-driven projects with real-life case studies, including a Mississippi River crossing project.

We'll have an inspiring lineup of experts as speakers:
⭐ Anna Broberg, co-founder and COO at Maptionnaire
⭐ James Taylor, Senior Planner at Franklin Associates
⭐ ⭐ Rachael Bronson, AICP and Kenny Armstrong, AICP, Multimodal Transportation Specialists at TPD

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Webinar: Inclusive Transportation Planning with Map-Based Engagement Discover strategies for enhancing community engagement projects with a digital map-based solution in transportation planning.

Are you looking for a sustainable, manageable, and data driven way to map the insights of the ordinary residents – the endless source of real-time, everyday information of their surroundings?

Join Hannu Stewart from Maptionnaire, Aslaug Tveit from LÉVA Urban Design AS, and Magdalena Hedman from FOJAB in a Maptionnaire webinar called Turning Local Insights into Actionable Data: Spatial Approach for Impactful Community Engagement on Thursday November 16th, at 14.00–15.00 CET.

By joining us on you’ll learn how to:

💡 Simplify engagement processes by harnessing a location-based solution
💡 Understand the capabilities of various citizen engagement methods and use them
💡 Utilize engagement data in the planning process
💡 Apply Maptionnaire at all stages of the engagement project

Learn more and register here: https://www.maptionnaire.com/webinar-spatial-approach-to-community-engagement Make sure to register even if you can’t join live. We’ll send the recording to you.

Just stumbled upon a research piece by Urban Institute "Who Makes Planning Choices?" — and although the findings are far from exciting, it’s even more important to talk about the current situation in planning. The data is form the US, but the situation might be similar to other systems.

Land-use decision-making bodies — whose decisions on land-use laws influence from property prices to labor market efficiency, to CO2 emission targets — are rarely representative.

Some of the stats:
⇾ Non-Hispanic white residents are overrepresented.
⇾ Men are overrepresented.
⇾ Homeowners are overrepresented.
⇾ People with occupations related to land-use development are overrepresented.

The implications are drastic: most of the laws drafted and implemented by these bodies do not take into account the voices of people who carry out their consequences. That is why diversity and inclusivity at all stages of citizen engagement matters. And yes, Maptionnaire times and again proves that it boosts inclusivity and engages more people in the decision-making process, but a political and cultural will often come first.

Here is the full report:

Who Makes Planning Choices? The Urban Institute conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of land-use decisionmakers nationwide to collect and analyze data on the racial and gender characteristics, housing tenures, and occupations of land-use decisionmaking board members across 482 jurisdictions and 601 land-use decisionmaking bodi...