How do government officials decide where to put a bus stop, road, or bridge and how transportation projects are planned?

The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) have created a guide to answer these and other transportation project-related questions.

Here’s a downloadable PDF, A Guide to Transportation Decisionmaking, to explain how all this is done.

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