Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 1: Guide
Transportation agencies that manage federally funded programs and projects are responsible
for ensuring that their plans, programs, policies, services, and investments benefit everyone
in their jurisdictions equitably.
The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's
TCRP Research Report 214:
Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 1: Guide
is designed to help Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) analyze and address equity
effectively in
long-range, regional, multimodal transportation planning and programming processes.
The guide walks through public engagement, identifying populations for analysis,
identifying needs and concerns, measuring impacts, further understanding those impacts,
and developing strategies to avoid or mitigate inequities. As the guide states,
minority, low-income, and limited English proficiency populations have not benefited
equitably from transportation investments and programs historically.
This report is followed by
TCRP Research Report 214: Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 2: Research Overview, which describes
the results of the research effort and identifies ways in which equity in public transportation
can be analyzed and adapted by MPOs
in partnership with transit
agencies.
This Summary Last Modified On: 7/23/2020