Community Involvement - How to Get Involved

The Miami-Dade TPO created the Transportation Outreach Planner to review the social, economic, and geographic characteristics of an area before public involvement efforts are initiated for a project or study. This tool includes an interactive mapping and reporting feature called the “Demographic Reporting Tool”, which is complemented by Community Background Reports and Public Involvement Strategies. Together, these three easy-to-use components ensure a comprehensive outreach effort is accomplished for any area within Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.

Do you have more questions concerning the Transportation Outreach Planner site? Contact Elizabeth Rockwell by email or at 305-375-1881.

Public Participation Plan (PPP)

The PPP document is a Federal requirement, which is updated periodically to ensure compliance with newly released federal and state regulations. This update is a result of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Public involvement (PI) is an integral process with a goal to involve all persons in a community, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, family or religious status, being affected positively or negatively by a future transportation project. PI is a two way communication stream aimed at incorporating the views, concerns, and issues of the public into the transportation decision making process, which is on-going in all phases of a project. lt allows the general public to be informed and to be heard. The PPP provides general guidelines for the development of stand-alone, specific public involvement plans for the TPO's required major planning documents, programs, and studies. This affords flexibility to TPO Project Managers to tailor PI techniques and strategies to a community's demographics within a study area.

View the PPP here.

Outreach Events

Staff attends various community events to ensure that the public is provided with an equal opportunity to participate in our transportation planning process.

To request a speaker for your event, please email Paul Chance or call 305-375-1888.

See pictures from our Outreach Events

Where has staff been? Check the 2019 Public Involvement Outreach Events..

Transportation Guide

"On the Move…" Miami-Dade County's pocket guide to transportation is the citizens’ guide that provides transportation information for transit, highway, ride-sharing, ports, bicycle and pedestrian, and much more. View the 5th Edition, Summer 2017 guides below:

• On the Move... Miami-Dade County Pocket Guide to Transportation
• En Marcha... Guia de Transporte del Condado Miami-Dade (Spanish)
• An Machan... Yon liv gid sou Transpotasyon nan Konte Miami-Dade (Haitian Creole)

Social Media / Watch our Meetings

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All public meetings of the Transportation Planning Organization Governing Board can be seen on cable television and through webcasting on your computer. All prior meetings are also available in the video archives.

Meeting Calendar: To see what meetings are scheduled this month, check out our Calendar.

Nondiscrimination: Title VI, ADA and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)

The Miami-Dade TPO has set a policy that assures that no person shall on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, family, or religious status, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, and the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination or retaliation under any program or activity. The following information supports the TPO’s Title VI/DBE Program:

• Title VI Policy Assurance Statement
• Title VI/Nondiscrimination Complaint Procedures
• Limited English Proficiency Plan (LEP)
• DBE Assurance Statement

For complaints, questions or concerns about civil rights or nondiscrimination, please contact Elizabeth Rockwell, Title VI Coordinator, at 305-375-1881 or Elizabeth.Rockwell@mdtpo.org.

It is also the policy of Miami-Dade County to comply with all of the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  To request any document in accessible format or if you need sign language interpreters and/or any accommodation(s) to participate in a meeting, please contact Paul Chance at 305-375-1888 or Paul.Chance@mdtpo.org at least five days in advance of the meeting.