More Equity Resources
Developing an Equity Tracker for the Central Puget Sound Region
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes a data-driven Equity Tracker developed by the Puget Sound Regional Council to measure disparities across communities. The tool tracks and analyzes the region's performance in closing equity-related gaps and monitors the implementation of equity programs and policies.
Read More >Fair Warnings: Recommendations to Promote Equity in Speed Safety Camera Programs
Source: Vision Zero Network
Introduces a new resource highlighting how speed cameras can serve as an alternative to traditional enforcement when thoughtfully planned, implemented, and monitored with a focus on equity. Provides a summary and details on a January 28 webinar.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides an overview of equity considerations for shared micromobility.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Developed for FHWA staff to provide information on considerations to integrate Equity into the Safe System Approach.
Read More >Exploring Risk Factors to Disparities in Pedestrian and Bicyclist Fatalities and Serious Injuries
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Examines systemic and infrastructural factors contributing to disparities in fatal and serious crashes across demographics. Offers practices to address risks tied to race, socioeconomic status, age, ability, and gender.
Read More >Source: US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
Offers an update to the the DOT Equity Action Plan, aligning with Executive Order 14091 to promote racial equity and support underserved communities.
Read More >Source: US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
Provides tools, metrics, and visualizations to explore transportation equity and its impacts on communities.
Read More >Source: The Greenlining Institute
Library of publications and resources regarding equity in transportation.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes presentations and discussions from a peer exchange on equitable shared mobility with MPOs.
Read More >Source: The Whitehouse
Updates a list of programs covered under the Justice40 Initiative to include programs created or funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides case studies on State and local agency plans and approaches to transportation equity.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Notes how US transportation approaches disproportionately harm low-income and communities of color.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides a synthesis of regulations and permitting related to shared micromobility systems.
Read More >Pedestrian Fatalities in Indian Country: Responding to a Crisis
Source: America Walks
Offers strategic recommendations for improving tribal pedestrian safety.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero Network
Provides examples and guidance on using Safe Streets and Roads for All funding for traffic enforcement.
Read More >Source: Next City
Reports on effective highway removal campaigns through case study examples.
Read More >Source: Arrested Mobility
Explores the concept of "green gentrification" on a podcast.
Read More >Taking On Traffic Laws: A How-To Guide for Decriminalizing Mobility
Source: Safe Routes Partnership and BikeWalkKC!
Guides advocates in revising traffic laws concerning walking and bicycling.
Read More >From Policy to Practice: A Guide to Measuring Complete Streets Progress
Source: National Complete Streets Coalition, Smart Growth America
Outlines strategies for local agencies to effectively measure the impacts and equity of Complete Streets policies.
Read More >Source: US Environmental Protection Agency EPA
Offers a searchable library of over 200 environmental justice resources.
Read More >Source: Bloomberg Cities Network
Describes a new approach to public meetings to better include underrepresented voices.
Read More >An Advocacy Guide to Repealing Harmful Traffic Laws: Setting Up Your Policy Campaign for Success
Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Provides strategies for repealing racially enforced traffic laws.
Read More >Source: Transportation Equity Caucus
Proposes principles for equitable transportation to ensure safety for marginalized groups.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Summarizes a 40-year high in pedestrian deaths and identifies those most at risk.
Read More >"Walking to School: Connecting Past and Present Impacts" StoryMap Text Content
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Provides a text file of "Walking to School: Connecting Past and Present Impacts" StoryMap for ADA/WCAG accessibility.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Explores the enduring effects of segregation and present-day social factors on current street conditions around schools and disinvested communities via a StoryMap focusing on these impacts in Atlanta, Georgia and featuring an initiative to improve active travel for middle school students.
Read More >Source: PeopleForBikes
Offers a 15-point, research-based fact sheet with links to help counteract misconceptions that often arise when advocating for change.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board
Offers a four-part series on equity.
Read More >Source: Conveyal
Describes a tool to quantify access to opportunities and progress toward equitable transportation systems, particularly public transit and active modes of transportation.
Read More >Economic Benefits and Shared Prosperity with Form-Based Codes
Source: Smart Growth America
Reports on research showing how form-based codes produce better economic outcomes, lead to positive impacts for equity and equitable development, and provide the best zoning and regulatory framework for good smart growth development.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum (ITF)
Examines micromobility trends and reviews its benefits and social costs to help develop governance frameworks and regulations that maximize the contributions of e-scooters, electric bikes, and pedal bikes to more sustainable mobility while minimizing negative effects.
Read More >Source: NACTO
Provides All Ages and Abilities criteria for selecting and implementing bike facilities.
Read More >Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety in Bus Rapid Transit and High-Priority Bus Corridors
Source: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Examines the state of practice in bus transit corridor planning, design, and construction in relation to pedestrian and bicyclist safety, public health, and equity, with a focus on dedicated bus lanes.
Read More >Source: Equitable Cities, Washington Area Bicyclist Association, StreetPlans
Acknowledges the barriers to bicycling that marginalized groups face and provides national and international case studies of cities, organizations, and community groups leading initiatives to increase bicycle ridership among underserved groups and achieve bike equity.
Read More >Source: Equitable Cities
Reviews transportation-related laws, policies, and practices concerning walking, cycling, and e-scooter use that limit mobility, opportunity, and access for Black Americans and other people of color.
Read More >Incorporating Distributional Impacts in Equitable Transport Planning
Source: Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Provides guidance for considering several types of transportation equity, describes various perspectives and impacts, and offers practical ways to incorporate transportation equity goals into policy and planning analysis.
Read More >Speed, Affordability, Equity, and Transportation Planning Practices
Source: Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Provides slides of a presentation that describes how common planning practices favor faster modes and higher traffic speeds over slower but more affordable and resource-efficient options resulting in inequities.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Features multiple articles focusing on the Safe System approach and principles of the approach as a way to center road safety on humans, regardless of mode of travel, and proactively building layers of protection. Articles include focus on equity and pedestrian safety throughout the issue.
Read More >Trip Chaining of Bicycle and Car Commuters: An Empirical Analysis of Detours to Secondary Activities
Source: Transportmetrica A Transport Science
Based on data from the Netherlands Mobility Panel, the model results propose that people make on average detours of 7.4 km (4.6 mi) by car and 1.3 km (0.81 mi) by bicycle.
Read More >Adolescents’ Perceptions of Walking and Bicycling to School and Home-to-School Distance
Source: Journal of Transport & Health
Finds that adolescents’ perceptions of walking and bicycling differ based on home-to-school distance.
Read More >Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Presents the differences in the prevalence of physical inactivity in the US by race/ethnicity and location.
Read More >Walmart, Major Bike Manufacturers Asked to Stop Making and Selling ‘Built-to-Fail’ Bikes
Source: Vice
Explains the increasing problem with budget bikes, assembled by people with little training that break easily and cannot be repaired. Reports on a petition started by the program director for Bikes Together in Denver, CO, a nonprofit that provides bicycles, repairs, and education courses to community members, that calls on bike manufacturers and major bike retailers to “stop producing and selling bikes that fall apart after a few months of use."
Read More >Source: Next City
Reviews a new documentary that explores why and how Boston, MA women ride after dark.
Read More >Source: Safe Routes Partnership and BikeWalkKC
Introduces a new guide to help repeal and modify traffic laws related to walking and bicycling that lead to racialized enforcement of people walking and bicycling.
Read More >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, or while driving.
Read More >Source: StreetLight Data
Describes how to use new demographic insights to invest in equity-first infrastructure.
Read More >Black Girls Do Bike Has Been Breaking Down Barriers for 10 Years
Source: Bicycling
The nonprofit champions efforts to introduce the joy of cycling to all women, but especially black women and girls.
Read More >Source: Streetsblog USA
Assesses the USDOT announced plans to implement the Justice40 policy.
Read More >Source: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Shares updated ways to visually convey the difference between equality and equity.
Read More >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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