PBIC Health and Transportation Webinar Series: Part 1 - Confronting Power and Privilege in Transportation Planning for Healthy and Equitable Communities

Oct 13, 2020

 

The focus on the intersection between transportation and public health is increasingly important as communities plan for recovery and response amid COVID-19 and tackle more persistent health and safety issues. Emerging research to better align the two fields offers not only an expanded perspective of their connections, but also opportunities to address health issues through the lens of transportation. The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), in partnership with many organizations, is delivering a webinar series aimed at exploring the integration of health in various transportation planning practices. Through a five-episode series, PBIC and its partners will share practices for advancing health and equity in transportation through the confrontation of power and privilege in communities, collaborative partnerships, data integration, project prioritization, and policy change. Panelists will draw from A Research Roadmap for Transportation and Public Health (National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 932), which synthesizes existing practice and research and proposes a plan to fund further exploration of this critical connection between transportation and health.

Kicking off the series will be a diverse group of planning and public health professionals who have issued a call to action for fundamentally shifting the way we plan, build, program, advocate, and legislate for transportation in our communities to prioritize health and quality of life for everyone. As a critical first step on the path to a healthier, more equitable transportation future, planning professionals must reflect on where we have fallen short, reimagine approaches to mobility that center equity and justice, and reconstruct systems that include and lift up communities who have been excluded and harmed. Learn how panelists answer this call in their work by building and shifting power in communities.

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