As announced at the 2nd Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity, TRB is conducting a video competition. Many organizations and groups are using a variety of new and innovative efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Creatively show us your organization’s DEI efforts by submi

Researchers for NCHRP 08-152 invite you to share your opinion in a study investigating meaningful and effective strategies for public agencies to increase and sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their transportation planning staff. The survey is for all transportation planning profess

Transportation agencies regularly consider trade-offs between investment options to address competing priorities with limited resources. Inadequate funding for all needed transportation improvements forces agencies to make difficult decisions across asset classes, such as mobility improvements versu

Take Texas Transportation Institute's survey to address disparities in pedestrian and bicyclist traffic crashes. Let's make a positive change! Survey link: https://tti.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3WfrV5V4sH9oeq

On Wednesday, May 25 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT, join Secretary Buttigieg and other DOT leaders for a virtual Info Session on Transportation Equity focused on our first-ever Equity Action Plan and how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law can help advance transportation equity. Register and submit your qu

PIARC has established a Special Projects mechanism to enable it to respond to emerging issues and priorities identified by its members outside the usual four-year Technical Committee cycle. This year, PIARC Special project will cover the issue of social equity and social accessibility on the road se

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) with the intent to award 1 cooperative agreement to operate a national Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC); conduct pedestrian and bicycle research; and provide technical assistance on topics relat

This webinar will discuss the types of spaces that LGBTQIA+ travelers and workers encounter. The discrimination that LGBTQIA+ QTPOC experience are compounded by their intersecting identities. According to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public H

Activists in communities find power in maps to explore the data and show how poor environmental oversight—and environmental racism—continue to impact health and longevity in communities of color. Key Takeaways • Smart mapping with GIS proves an imperative tool across environmental justice initiati

We are contacting you to request your participation in distributing a survey about the equitable deployment of transportation technologies. The survey includes questions related to equity planning, technology planning, and the equity opportunities and challenges of transportation technologies. This

The purpose of this email is to request your input to inform the annual update of the US DOT Equity Action Plan. This includes this Thursday’s webinar and responding to the Request for Information.  Request for Information To ensure comprehensive and inclusive contributions, please provide relevant

As a transportation professional, we invite you to help us develop a roadmap of high priority research needs related to transportation equity. The roadmap will be used by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials members and partner agencies interested in institutionaliz

Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Transportation Demand Managememt (TDM) Conference Where: Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver When: October 26, 2023 from 8:00 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $40 includes breakfast and lunch CDOT is currently looking for presenters and panels. If you or someone you kn

WRI is circulating a SOW for a disability rights white paper. The paper will explore the most effective ways to center disability rights and justice in the transition to electric school buses. We are looking to identify a contractor to partner with the Electric School Bus Initiative in this importan

DOT is proud to announce the reestablishment of the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE), the first federal advisory committee established under Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The ACTE is a direct legacy of Secretary Anthony Foxx who first established it in 2016. The goal of this commit

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R) is conducting an open “Call for Ideas” session on March 18, 2022, 1:30 – 3:00PM EST. The purpose of this listening session is to obtain stakeholder input and research ideas to help inf

Please let TRB know what you think we can learn from Black History Month to improve equity in transportation? In your submission share (1) your short response (two-sentences) and (2) a photo of you at work. If selected, your submission may be featured in TRB’s blog posts, in TRB Weekly, on social me

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TRB is currently seeking individuals with relevant expertise and experience to volunteer to serve on the project oversight panel for NCHRP project 07-37 Update of the AASHTO Guide for the Planning, Design and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities.  Nominations should be submitted online from the TRB w

For this edition of Critical Issues in Transportation, the Transportation Research Board’s Executive Committee chose to focus on five vitally important societal goals to meet these major challenges facing society: 1. Mitigating and responding to climate change 2. Promoting equity and inclusion 3

RFA 23-2 seeks to fund studies that assess the effects of actions, programs, or other interventions on ambient or indoor air pollution exposure, health outcomes, or both in historically marginalized and environmentally overburdened urban or rural communities (hereafter referred to as “historically m

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The Airport Cooperative Research Program is hosting the “Systemic Inequality in the Aviation Industry” Insight Event next month, April 12-13th in D.C. This free two-day event will expand participants' understanding of the challenges posed by systemic inequality in the aviation industry, why it matte

Thursday, March 3, 2022 1:00 – 2:30 PT / 4:00 – 5:30 ET Presented by the TRB Transit Management and Performance Committee (AP010) As leaders rethink the role transit plays within their communities, many agencies are looking at whether transit meets the needs of all community members equitably. Th

Post-doctoral Fellow: Data Science for City Logistics Faculty / Division: Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Department Civil & Mineral Engineering Campus St. George (downtown Toronto) Description The Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto invites applications fo

A new federal framework for ensuring racial equity will guide the implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure plan, says EPA Administrator Michael Regan. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-11/an-infrastructure-bill-built-on-environmental-justice

My name is Cole Grisham and I’m co-managing a transportation research study with the US DOT Volpe Center (copied) titled Planning and Data-Sharing Partnerships Between Governments and Public Land Management Agencies (PLMAs). The study’s goal is to highlight best practices, processes, and tools for d

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is looking for participants to join the gender equity in transportation research technical advisory panel. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has been having transportation equity conversations around Greater Minnesota.  We have had a diffic