CITIZENS’ EVALUATION OF ROAD PLANNING PROCESS:

CASE STUDY OF YOKOHAMA NORTH-WEST CORRIDOR

Abstract

Public involvement (PI) has recently been introduced into the road planning process at the concept stage in Japan. However, there is a lack of agreed-upon evaluation methods for individual processes. It is very difficult for citizens to distinguish between planning process evaluation and planning decision evaluation. This study developed a method for citizens’ evaluation withdrawing items assessing procedure from other outcome items for road planning. A body of questions for citizens’ evaluation was constructed and a residential questionnaire survey was conducted in Yokohama North-West Corridor (YNWC), of which the public was involved in the development of the “rough plan”. The feasibility of citizens’ evaluation for planning process was discussed while examining the question items; the effects of respondent’s attributes on perception were analyzed; the determinants of citizens’ impression on government and citizens’ attitude to participatory planning process were studied by performing regression analysis.