1. Potholes and Politics: Minnesotans’ Attitudes about Transportation Infrastructure
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Preliminary results from UM “Potholes and Politics” State Fair survey, Kathy Quick, Associate Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 20 min.
Results from Public Engagement Preferences Survey, Renee Raduenz and Jan Kihm, Market Research unit/PECS, 20 min.
Kathy and Jan: Would 20 minutes be sufficient for presentation/questions/discussion? The meeting is only 1 hour, so I don’t want to take up the entire meeting… If we need to push out the Preferences survey to November, we could do that if needed.
Kathy Quick, PHD Guillermo Narváez, PhD
University of minnesota Proxemic insights, LLC
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2. Preliminary results of State Fair Survey
754 Minnesotan adult participants
3-5 minute survey using iPads and Qualtrics (See handout)
UMN Dare to Discover pavilion at State Fair. 4 days, 4-5 hour sessions, space funded by CTS
5 MnDOT volunteers, 7 UMN students
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4. PRELIMINARY Purposes of survey
Engage with the public to gain their input on a policy issue of immediate, high relevance.
Mode patterns (their usual patterns of transportation infrastructure use)
Awareness (self-assessment of being informed about transportation infrastructure issues)
Quality of different aspects of transportation infrastructure
Values they prioritize in transportation infrastructure and policy.
Policy preferences, gathered in a confidential, apolitical setting
Demographic information (zip code, age, race, gender, political identification)
Strengthen relationships with MnDOT's market research, public engagement, and communication services teams.
Test the conventional wisdom about the rural/urban divide or party line splits on transportation issues.
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5. What kinds of transportation do you usually use? (Select all that apply.)
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6. “I feel well informed about transportation infrastructure issues in Minnesota.”
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Strongly disagree 7.3%
Somewhat disagree 29.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 47.7%
Somewhat agree 90.2%
Strongly agree 100%
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7. Quality of transportation infrastructure (1 to 5 stars)
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8. Most important values (forced to chose 4)
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9. Most important values, by party (forced to choose 4)
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10. Correlations of party ID & preferences. significant. very significant
Correlations of party ID & preferences *significant **very significant ***clearly very significant
Cost to taxpayer
√ Republican***
√ No preference*
not Democrat***
Environment
√ Democrat***
not Republican***
not Decline to state*
Equity
√ Democrat***
not Republican***
not No preference**
Cost to user
√ No preference**
Health
√ Democrat*
not Independent*
Economic vitality
√ Independent*
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12. Study participant place of residence
447 Minneapolis, St. Paul and northern Dakota or Scott counties
112 Northwest metro suburbs
128 Greater Minnesota
30 Western metro suburbs
15 Rochester
6-7 each Mankato, St Cloud, Duluth
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13. Please contact us with questions, ideas, or requests for updates:
Thank you!
Next steps
Your suggestions
Additional data analysis, especially of regional, racial, and income patterns
Gather additional data from greater MN
LRRB proposal under review
Other ideas?
Longitudinal analysis of changing views
Repeat at State Fair? Annually?
How can we increase participation from
greater Minnesota?
non-White Minnesotans?
Questions or components to add?
Coordinate w/MnDOT’s State Fair booth?
Other ideas, critiques, suggestions?
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Please contact us with questions, ideas, or requests for updates:
Guillermo Narváez, Kathy Quick,
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