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A well-organized public involvement program outlines the techniques and practices that can focus public dialogue and local involvement in a project in a productive and useful way. Public involvement helps guide project development to meet the overall public interest by building consensus around a single plan of action, and is a key element of project implementation strategy.
- AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence "Above and Beyond: The Environmental and Social Contributions of America's Highway Programs"
- NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) Synthesis 373 "Multi-Disciplinary Teams in Context-Sensitive Solutions: A Synthesis of Highway Practice"
- US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration “What is CSS? – Current Activities Report”
- US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration “What is CSS? – Publications”
- “Thinking Beyond the Pavement” Conference Report
- Integration of Context Sensitive Solutions in the Transportation Planning Process (Final Report)
- Performance Measures for Context Sensitive Solutions – A Guidebook for State DOTs
- NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) Report 480 “A Guide to Best Practices for Achieving Context Sensitive Solutions”
- Peaks, Hayes, “Building Roads in Sync with Community Values,” PUBLIC ROADS, vol. 62, no. 5, March/April 1999
- Federal Highway Administration, “Flexibility in Highway Design,”
- The Mineta Transportation Institute, "The Nature of Context Sensitive Solutions, Stakeholders Involvement and Critical Issues in the Urban Context"
- US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, “Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decision-making”
- Florida Department of Transportation. “Public Involvement Handbook”
- New York Department of Transportation – The I-87 Project. Documents the public involvement efforts for an international connection between the largest metropolitan area in the United States (New York City) and the second largest metropolitan area in Canada (Montreal)
- New York Department of Transportation – The Route 9A Project. A good example of a CSS public involvement effort by NYSDOT.
- Virginia DOT “Public Involvement: Your Guide to Participating in the Transportation Planning and Programming Process”