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See where mobility needs change.

Transportation feedback is spatial, technical, and personal at the same time. Tortoise 40 puts the network on the map and lets people point at the exact place they are talking about.

What this covers

Engagement for transportation planning

  • Corridors
  • Walking
  • Biking
  • Transit
  • Safety
  • Intersections
  • Route feedback
  • Mapped concerns
  • Survey input
  • Planning updates
01

Comments that arrive with a location

A resident describing a dangerous crossing in a comment box gives you a paragraph. The same person dropping a pin on the intersection gives you a record you can join to the network.

  • Map comments with categories for safety, access, and mobility
  • Photo attachments
  • Coordinate export for the analysis
02

Mode-specific input

People who walk, bike, drive, and ride transit experience the same street differently. Ask which mode the comment is about, and the feedback separates cleanly.

  • Mode categories on map comments
  • Survey questions asked per mode
  • Comparison of priorities between groups
03

Corridor and intersection priorities

Every transportation plan has more candidate projects than funding. Ask people to rank the improvements and to say what they would trade for.

  • Ranking and budget allocation questions
  • Before-and-after exhibits published as reviewable documents
  • Distribution of responses across the study area
04

Safety input handled carefully

Safety comments are often personal, and sometimes describe a crash. Keep them structured, keep the wording intact, and keep the record usable for the engineering team.

  • Structured categories so safety input is not lost among general comments
  • Comments kept in their original wording
  • Internal notes kept separate from the public record
05

Project updates as the work moves

Transportation projects run for years. Publish updates in the same project space so the people who engaged at the start can follow what happened.

  • Dated project updates
  • Documents and exhibits published as they are ready
  • One link that stays valid for the life of the project

Next

Give your public project a Shell.

Tortoise 40 is free to use. Set up a project, publish it, and start collecting public input.