National Symposium for Rural Transportation Planning Organizations and Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Assessing the Structure and Benefits of Collaboration.

This proceedings report documents a special event on the relationships among regional planning organizations, state and local government agencies, and stakeholder groups. This symposium was held as a joint session during the 2010 National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference (http://www NULL.ruraltransportation NULL.org/pages/page NULL.asp?page_id=93315) and AMPO Annual Conference (http://www NULL.ampo NULL.org/onevent/schedule NULL.php?id=48).

Through a keynote address and a series of panels, attendees learned about models for collaboration on planning efforts from five states: Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee. Through small group discussion, attendees also engaged in further dialogue on benefits of and obstacles to collaboration, issue areas often addressed through partnerships, and institutional arrangements that facilitate relationship-building.

(January 2011, 24 pages): View the report (http://www NULL.ruraltransportation NULL.org/uploads/2010symposium NULL.pdf) (PDF)