What could transport planning practice learn from public participation GIS method?

Since the 1970s, mainstreaming public engagement remains one of the crucial factors for the evolution of transport-planning practice. Despite many efforts aimed at advancing participatory planning practices, the need for further development remains. Today, the palette of traditional participatory methods has been expanded with a variety of digital and web-based tools. This chapter focuses on online public participation GIS method that connects human experiences with specific transport planning solutions and provides a tool to realize human scale transport systems. By reviewing experiences from 47 transport planning projects across the US, UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand, the research aims to provide lessons for transport planning practice. An ex-post analysis of projects and an expert survey provides a summary of benefits and challenges of using this online method. Discussion provides recommendations related to effective implementation of digital public engagement tools in human-scale transport planning. © Miloš N. Mladenović, Tuuli Toivonen, Elias Willberg and Karst T. Geurs 2021.