Document Type

Report

Publication Date

5-2017

Subjects

Transportation -- Planning -- Statistical methods, Urban transportation -- Planning, Community development

Abstract

Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) have long been required to consider the equity implications of their regional transportation plans and processes. Funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, this research aims to provide additional guidance to MPOs on how to evaluate distributional equity in regional plans and projects. The report begins with an overview of federal requirements related to equity in transportation planning. We then synthesize contemporary methods for measuring transportation equity and the distributional effects of plans and projects from a review of the literature and MPO plans and studies. The report concludes with exploratory case studies of equity analysis in two regions representing distinctly different planning contexts and stages of addressing equity, and a summary of key methods to serve as a resource for use by MPOs in integrating equity into the regional transportation planning process.

Description

This is a final report, NITC-RR-862, from the NITC program of TREC at Portland State University, and may be found online at: http://trec.pdx.edu/research/project/862/Evaluating_the_Distributional_Effects_of_Regional_Transportation_Plans_and_Projects

The project brief associated with this record can be accessed at: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20586

DOI

10.15760/trec.175

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20588

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