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I 30 <br /> tasks include preparation of the annual Planning Work Program, <br /> periodic preparation of a surveillance report to analyze growth <br /> trends, documentation required for FTA Title VI compliance, and <br /> routine administrative management. The service function element <br /> listed in Chapter IV involves making transportation planning <br /> information available to both public (including other governmental <br /> units) and private sectors. Procedural Development, Chapter V, <br /> provides for research or work toward improvements to the <br /> transportation planning process. <br /> Citizen participation is an important element of the transportation <br /> planning process and is achieved by making study documents and <br /> information available to the public and by actively seeking citizen <br /> participation during plan reevaluation. Involvement is sought <br /> through such techniques as goals and objectives surveys, <br /> neighborhood forums, drop-in centers, workshops, seminars, and <br /> public hearings. Elected or appointed city • and town <br /> representatives and municipal and county planning boards should ' <br /> serve as primary sources in gaining public understanding and <br /> support for the transportation planning activity. <br /> An organization chart for continuing transportation planning for <br /> the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization' <br /> is shown in Figure 1: The history and status of transportation <br /> planning is given in Appendix A. <br /> 3 <br />