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https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120936256

This research provides a framework for addressing inequities through municipalities’ transportation plans, which have no federal equity requirements and have been given little guidance for incorporating equity. Fifteen pedestrian master plans are reviewed for their equity considerations to derive a tripartite framework for systematically incorporating equity into transportation plans, known as The Three A’s of Equity. Acknowledgment recognizes equity as a value of the plan and that there are transportation inequities to be eliminated; Accountability establishes equity measures to be achieved by the transportation plan; and Application identifies the interventions that will be implemented to help achieve equity. Using the proposed framework, the 15 plans are evaluated for their equity considerations. The analysis finds that cities are increasingly including equity into their pedestrian master plans, but do so inconsistently, seldom include the Accountability element, and rarely include race in their equity considerations. The proposed framework, the Three A’s of Equity, can guide cities in systematically incorporating equity into their transportation plans to ideally advance more equitable outcomes.

The data used for this research are drawn from reports provided in the references and are available on the respective cities’ websites. © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2020.

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pp 764-780

2020-10

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

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References (63)

Cities and towns; Equity; Master plans; Pedestrians; Transportation planning

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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