Civil rights and environmental justice laws and regulations aim to ensure fair processes and
outcomes in regional transportation planning. Despite these requirements, people of color …

Transportation policies, plans, and projects all flow through state institutions because of the
substantial cost of infrastructure and the need to assess transportation system performance …

This chapter provides an overview of the academic and applied understandings of how
justice might best be achieved in the domain of transportation. The emphasis is on the US …

Regional transportation planning agencies seek to achieve multiple objectives
simultaneously including consensus on key issues, compliance with relevant laws and …

Urban transport policies are characterized by a wide range of impacts, and trade-offs and
conflicts among these impacts. The task of integrating and reconciling these impacts poses …

Achieving transportation equity is a transportation system goal that is becoming increasingly
important in both the public sector and academia. An equitable transportation system would …

Metropolitan planning organizations typically undertake an analysis of regional
transportation plan equity to comply with federal anti-discrimination law, most prominently …

Belief that transportation investment and operations have caused environmental damage in
poor and minority communities to benefit the more affluent has prompted planning agencies …

Consistent with federal anti-discrimination and environmental justice law and guidance,
public transportation agencies must evaluate the extent to which their decisions benefit and …

Despite years of legally mandated public engagement for transportation planning, there is
often little evidence that this results in more equitable processes or outcomes. Recently …