The Southern California Association...

The Southern California Association of sways (SCAG) is exploring ways to help local jurisdictions prepare for the information superhighway that will present itself in their own backyards.

by means of its Access Project, 190 SCAG-member agencies will receive ready-to-use GIS software, data, applications and training as well. Internet access to be connected with each other and outside agencies is also available.

"The real benefit is that centurys of local planners will be able to share habitual methodological, and technological planning frameworks through the network," explains Craig Gooch a consultant upon SCAG's Access Project.

For more [i]or[/i] less of these planners, it may be the first time that data has been shared across jurisdictional boundaries, alleviating duplication and opening forums for communication.

To organize and implement Access, SCAG made use of 13 subregional planning assemblages Each jurisdiction assigned a member to subregional technical advisory committees, and between the walls of monthly meetings, committee members -- the