Who Uses This Site?
Transportation Partners
This site is designed to provide public involvement tools and resources to:
- planners
- project managers
- local and federal authorities
- consultants
- contractors
- other states
- community and advisory groups
General Public
For more information about public meetings and hearings regarding current or planned highway projects, please check Mn/DOT's construction project pages or contact your local district office.
Tools & Resources
- Hear Every Voice II: Public Involvement Guidance 2008.pdf
- Planning
- Programming
- Project Development
- Construction
- Maintenance & Operations
Mn/DOT Goals leading to 21st Century Solutions
"To rebuild public trust and confidence in Mn/DOT and the transportation community as a whole."
"To make sure the decisions we make in the future are really being responsive to public values."
"To regenerate a spirit of innovation and creativity in the state of Minnesota."
Tom Sorel,
Transportation Commissioner
Mn/DOT's Public Involvement Process
Decisions to important transportation issues require input from the public. Mn/DOT assembled a Public Involvement Task Force in 1997 to review and update procedures for involving the public in Mn/DOT's program delivery decisions. The resulting guide was approved by the Federal Highway Administration on June 7,1999, and is available below. The guide consists of five parts, all available in PDF format:
Hear Every Voice: a Guide to Public Involvement at Mn/DOT, describes the background used in developing the guide along with public involvement's role in planning and project development. Tools to assist in selecting techniques and case studies are included.
USDOT Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decision Making, dated September 1996. It is a reference that contains a wide variety of public involvement techniques geared for specific applications.
Non-Traditional Transportation Stakeholder Dialogue Project:
Final Report (PDF, 1128 KB), documents findings and recommendations from Mn/DOT's Non-Traditional Transportation Dialogue project conducted to :
- Identify non-traditional transportation stakeholder groups in the Twin Cities metropolitan area
- Build partnerships with non-traditional transportation stakeholders
- Invite those groups to become involved in Mn/DOT's public participation process
- Create a forum for dialogue and two way learning
Methods and Approaches to Enhance Involvement in Non-Traditional Transportation Stakeholder Communities and Neighborhoods - a Handbook for Mn/DOT Planning and Project Development Project Managers
In addition to the guidance in the Hear Every Voice Public Involvement Guide, here are a couple of helpful downloadable WordPerfect files for use in the Project Development Process. The first is a Certificate of Compliance to be submitted per instructions on page 44 of Hear Every Voice. The second is a sample Public Hearing Notice and notice of availability of environmental document per Notification Procedures on page 43 of Hear Every Voice.