01861005

Monograph

https://dx.doi.org/10.17226/26739

This digest documents the laws, statutes, cases, procedures, policies, and other resources governing or addressing (1) a transportation agency’s prevention or removal of unsheltered encampments from transportation rights-of-way; (2) the authorized use of transportation rights-of-way for shelters for unhoused individuals and social services to assist transportation agencies in addressing safety, health, and public welfare issues; and (3) the ability of transportation agencies to control their rights-of-way. Also, this digest includes a comprehensive overview of the types of legal claims against transportation agencies that involve prevention or removal of encampments from transportation rights-of-way, and the use of transportation rights-of-way for authorized shelters. The digest will be useful to transportation lawyers, engineers, planners, state and federal civil rights transportation officers, private civil rights attorneys, civil rights groups, administrators, and researchers of civil rights in transportation.

English

61p

2022-9

NCHRP Legal Research Digest

9780309687349

Digital/other

Appendices; Figures; Tables

Civil rights; Homeless persons; Laws; Legal documents; Legal factors; Policy; Right of way (Land); Shelters; State departments of transportation

Highways; Law; Society

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Oct 10 2022 9:50AM