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Montgomery County, MD: Increasing Equitable Transit Access by Improving Walkability

Source: Brookings
Describes efforts to study and tackle pedestrian access as a fundamental equity issue across communities that a new rail line will serve.
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Arrested Mobility Podcast

Source: Arrested Mobility
Explores why Black Americans and other people of color are disproportionately victims of overly aggressive police enforcement and brutality while walking, running, riding bicycles, taking public transit,
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New FHWA Complete Streets Report to Congress

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Recommends making Complete Streets the default road design model to help improve safety and access for all users.
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Comic Book: Moving from Cars to People

Source: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
Provides a history in illustrated comic book form of how we ended up with a car-centric built environment.
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Amsterdam: Unveils 2 Giant Underwater Bicycle Shelters

Source: TheMayor.eu
Locating the shelters underwater helps provide more space for pedestrians and safe bike storage.
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Centering Intersectionality in Public Transit

Source: Arrested Mobility
Describes the challenges Black women, femme and trans people face when they enter and move through public space and what equitable, accessible, intersectional mobility looks like.
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State Geometric Design Procedures for Resurfacing, Restoration, and Rehabilitation (RRR) Projects Memo

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Offers information for FHWA Divisions when they evaluate RRR procedures proposed by States, suggesting they look for procedures and considerations that would help expand multimodal networks.
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Improving Safety for Pedestrians and Bicyclists Accessing Transit

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration
Provides a comprehensive understanding of how to address pedestrian and bicyclist safety concerns related to accessing transit.
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Measuring Access to Opportunities to Advance Equity

Source: Conveyal
Describes a tool to quantify access to opportunities and progress toward equitable transportation systems, particularly public transit and active modes of transportation. Its routing software is published under a permissive open-
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Innovations in Transportation Equity for Latino Communities: Voices for Healthy Kids Grant Summary Report

Source: Salud America
Recommends bringing Latinos and Latino issues into transportation and planning conversations and ways to move toward transportation equity.
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