TY - JOUR
T1 - A new method for public involvement in electric transmission-line routing
AU - Jewell, Ward
AU - Grossardt, Ted
AU - Bailey, Keiron
AU - Gill, Ramandeep Singh
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 11, 2008; revised April 10, 2009. Current version published September 23, 2009. This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant Award 0400988. Paper no. TPWRD-00522-2008. W. Jewell is with Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). T. Grossardt is with the University of Kentucky Transportation Center, Lexington, KY 40506 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). K. Bailey is with the Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA (e-mail: [email protected]. edu). R. S. Gill is with Black and Veatch, Overland Park, KS 66211 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2027490
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Public participation in and acceptance of routing decisions for electric transmission lines has delayed and prevented the construction of numerous lines in recent decades. A new method of public participation called structured public involvement (SPI), developed previously by two of the authors for routing other public infrastructure, has been adapted to routing electric transmission lines. SPI elicits and quantifies community values then routes the line according to these values and best engineering design practices. The process is done before any potential routes are ever considered by the transmission company and routing professionals, effectively allowing the public, in collaboration with experts, to determine the line route. This reduces the chances of line routing failure by simplifying the project and greatly accelerating the complex problem of comparing alternate line routes, and it facilitates public acceptance of a final route.
AB - Public participation in and acceptance of routing decisions for electric transmission lines has delayed and prevented the construction of numerous lines in recent decades. A new method of public participation called structured public involvement (SPI), developed previously by two of the authors for routing other public infrastructure, has been adapted to routing electric transmission lines. SPI elicits and quantifies community values then routes the line according to these values and best engineering design practices. The process is done before any potential routes are ever considered by the transmission company and routing professionals, effectively allowing the public, in collaboration with experts, to determine the line route. This reduces the chances of line routing failure by simplifying the project and greatly accelerating the complex problem of comparing alternate line routes, and it facilitates public acceptance of a final route.
KW - Decision support systems
KW - Geographic information systems (GIS)
KW - Meetings
KW - Power distribution planning
KW - Power transmission planning
KW - Public involvement
KW - Public participation
KW - Routing
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U2 - 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2027490
DO - 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2027490
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70350345246
SN - 0885-8977
VL - 24
SP - 2240
EP - 2247
JO - IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
JF - IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
IS - 4
ER -