A guidebook for successful communication, cooperation and coordination strategies between transportation agencies and tribal communities.

This report provides guidelines to help departments of transportation and tribal commuities work together to achieve successful transportation projects on tribal lands. It addresses a wide range of issues and topics that must be considered and presents a flexible approach that can be adapted to most situations. After conducting extensive interviews, workshops, and a Delphi survey, the research team identified successful practices and developed structured case studies to illustrate the most successful practices. This Guidebook will provide considerable value to all agency staff and tribal communities involved in the planing, design, construction, and maintenance of transportation projects on tribal lands. The guidelines are supplemented by a final research report, which is available as NCHRP Web-Only Document 171 on http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_w171.pdf. (Author/publisher)