Organizational sustainability in transportation planning: Evaluation of multi-jurisdictional agency collaboration |
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| Institution: | 1. California University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth Sciences, 250 University Ave., California, PA 15419, USA;2. West Virginia University, Recreation, Parks and Tourism Resources, PO Box 6125, Morgantown, WV 26506-6125, USA;3. The Pennsylvania State University, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management, 701J Donald H. Ford Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA;4. Concord University, Recreation and Tourism Management, PO Box 1000, Vermillion St., Athens, WV 24712, USA;1. Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, P/O Box 68131 Mannheim, Germany;2. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;3. Institute of Political Science and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Switzerland;4. Environmental Social Science Department, Eawag, Ueberlandstrasse 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland;1. Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, 117 Transportation Building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, UT 247667, India;1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan;2. Center of Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability (CEIDS), Osaka Univeristy, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan;1. Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Mathematics, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea;2. Bohai University, School of Mathematics and Physics, Jinzhou 121013 Liaoning, China |
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| Abstract: | Although significant effort is being made in addressing infrastructure design, construction, operations, and maintenance, there is the need for assessing organizational sustainability within transportation planning. Transportation planners have identified coordination and collaboration as fundamental steps in addressing issues related to transportation network planning and sustainability initiatives. This research explores multi-jurisdictional collaboration between agencies using a case study on Pennsylvania Metropolitan/Rural Planning Organizations (MPOs/RPOs) and non-designated areas. The agencies are surveyed and the results are analyzed using a network analysis software, Gephi. In order to compare the collaboration network analysis (survey results) to influential factors, such as geographic adjacency and geographic proximity (reflective of transportation networks), GIS is used in combination with Gephi to complete geographical network analyses. The three analyses are compared using average degree, density, and average path length. The results indicate that the MPOs, RPOs, and non-designated areas within the state of Pennsylvania are collaborating, on average, beyond the geographical adjacency but below the level of geographical proximity network. In addition, email and phone communication forms are the most widely used for high frequency connection while face-to-face meetings are more likely for biannual and annual collaboration. The results of this study serve as a foundation for measuring and monitoring multi-jurisdictional collaboration to promote sustainable organizational planning in transportation. |
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