New or expanded public transportation options can improve health and health equity by reducing traffic crashes and air pollution, increasing physical activity, and improving access to medical care ...

As the nation’s transportation systems emerged from the COVID-19-imposed lockdowns, it became clear that a certain Rubicon had been crossed, a deeper understanding of transportation’s place in ...

In 2019, the National Academy of Public Administration identified “Foster Social Equity” as one of the 12 Grand Challenges in Public Administration. In fact, social equity is a key element in ...

More information: Dale Robbennolt et al, GIS-Based Approach to Dynamic Accessibility: Incorporating a User Perspective to Recognize Social Equity Implications, Transportation Research Record ...

Urban freeways and transit infrastructure projects — often paid for in large part by federal transportation funds — have disproportionately displaced and isolated people living in minority ...

Better mental health care, affordable housing, public transportation all priorities for Cook County equity task force Cook County Board President Preckwinkle said the fund has a “very simple ...

To learn more about riding fare-free, visit VVTA online or other transit agency social media platforms. To learn more about Transit Equity Day, visit labor4sustainability.org .

Public transportation has emerged as a policy priority in Latin America because of these implications for both physical activity and the promotion of health and social equity in cities. However, ...

Parks fought transportation equity by refusing to give up her seat on a bus Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. ... “Without public transportation, ...

The brief is titled Public Transportation In The US: A Driver Of Health And Equity and joins Health Affairs’ ongoing series of policy briefs on the social determinants of health.