Transportation for Communities - Advancing Projects Through Partnerships

Expediting Project Delivery Assessment

Please respond to the following statements based on your current situation. The assessment takes only a few minutes, and you can skip any section. A Summary Report with your results and all strategies is available at the end.

You may also take the assessment off-line as an individual or as a group. The Assessment Statements (2 pg, 39.2 KB) and Supporting Strategies (92 pg, 1.5 MB) provide you with all information in a printable format.

Avoiding policy decisions through continual analysis
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Project decisions are delayed or protracted due to unexpected requests for additional analysis or for more information.		1	1	1	1
Conflicting resource values
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Conflicts between resource values and/or between the advocates for those resources delay project decision-making.		2	2	2	2
Difficulty agreeing on impacts/mitigation
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Stakeholders are critical of the project's adverse effects.		3	3	3	3
There is considerable concern or controversy regarding the project's adverse effects (real or perceived).		4	4	4	4
The following question will become active if it is applicable to you: What stakeholder group(s) were integral to the controversy, concern or delay (select all that apply)? Non-Federal Agencies Local Jurisdiction Environmental Stakeholders Community Organizations Other
Inability to maintain agreement
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
After the range of alternatives has been deliberately narrowed through analysis and decision-making, more alternatives are added to the process, causing delay.		5	5	5	5
Decisions that have been previously made are re-opened, causing project delays.		6	6	6	6
The following question will become active if it is applicable to you: What stakeholder group(s) were integral to the controversy, concern or delay (select all that apply)? Non-Federal Agencies Local Jurisdiction Environmental Stakeholders Community Organizations Other
Ineffective internal communication
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Project staff doesn't feel adequately involved or informed about project direction.		7	7	7	7
Even when design work or analysis has been completed, it needs to be re-done because out-of-date information or assumptions were used.		8	8	8	8
Communicating with other project team members is difficult or cumbersome.		9	9	9	9
Communicating with other project team members does not happen in a timely manner.		10	10	10	10
Inefficient Section 106 consultation with SHPO
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Section 106 compliance is on the project critical path.		11	11	11	11
Section 106 compliance is taking longer than scheduled.		12	12	12	12
Inordinate focus on single issue
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
Stakeholder coordination is dominated by a single issue, while other important issues receive considerably less attention.		13	13	13	13
A single issue dominates project decision-making, while other important issues receive much less consideration by decision-makers.		14	14	14	14
The following question will become active if it is applicable to you: What stakeholder groups were integral to the delay or concern (select all that apply)? Non-Federal Agencies Local Jurisdiction Environmental Stakeholders Community Organizations Other
Inefficient public engagement or support
	Disagree	Mildly Agree	Moderately Agree	Strongly Agree	N/A
The project is having difficulty getting the public and/or other stakeholders interested and engaged in the project.		15	15	15	15
There is little expressed public or stakeholder support for the project.		16	16	16	16

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