Overview
As a Department, UDOT’s goal is to reduce overall impacts to the public while meeting transportation needs. As such, planning for and executing appropriate strategies to involve and communicate with the public at large and with individual stakeholders throughout the life cycle of transportation project is critical. From the time a project is considered in concept to the stage when it is constructed and being maintained, the public’s needs, concerns and questions must be taken into account and addressed to achieve the goal of reducing impacts. To effectively manage project outreach plans and activities, project managers and project teams need information and tools to analyze the depth and breadth of outreach needs in order to decide how best to meet them. The Project Outreach Planner (POP) is that resource.