The mission and scope of the TRB Equity in Transportation Committee (AME10) is to identify, advance and publish research aimed at expanding current and future understandings and improved evaluations of effects and implications of transportation policies, procedures and actions on minority and low-income populations.

 

The primary mission of this Committee is to engage in research, planning, evaluation, education and outreach associated with environmental justice and transportation equity that would advance the state of the practice for all transportation agencies.

 

Given the complex links among mobility/accessibility needs, economic opportunities, socio-cultural, environmental and health effects, which are compounded by different strata (e.g., spatial, temporal, modal, generational, gender, racial, cultural, income), this Committee brings a variety of disciplines (e.g., planners, social scientists, epidemiologists, economists, attorneys, engineers, advocates, elected officials and academics) together to advance the Committee’s mission and scope.

 

The Committee uses a variety of venues to disseminate research results to local, state and federal transportation agencies and practitioners attempting to meaningfully address mobility and accessibility needs of minority and low-income communities across the nation and around the world.