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Title: DATA AND ANALYSIS METHODS FOR METROPOLITAN-LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ASSESSMENT
Accession Number: 00819952
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: An examination is made of data sources and analytical methods available to metropolitan transportation planners for use in technical activities related to environmental justice and Title VI discrimination analyses. The focus is on data and methods employed by the metropolitan planning organization for the San Francisco Bay Area. An initial technical activity is the preparation of a geographic and demographic profile of the region with respect to low-income, minority, elderly, and disabled persons. Difficulties associated with long-range forecasting of these variables at the small area (county) level and very small area (travel analysis zones, neighborhoods) level are discussed. Citizens advisory groups are needed to provide early guidance for this technical activity and to appreciate the uncertainties associated with the data and methods. Transportation analysis procedures to analyze changes in accessibility between alternatives in the long-range regional transportation plan are outlined. These methods map out changes in accessibility to evaluate impacts on transportation disadvantaged versus nondisadvantaged neighborhoods. Future data sources, including Census 2000 and the American Community Survey (ACS), are discussed. The ACS data, in particular, may prove highly beneficial in describing changing socioeconomic patterns within a metropolitan area.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1756, Sustainability and Environmental Concerns in Transportation 2001.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Purvis, C LPagination: p. 15-21
Publication Date: 2001
Serial: ISBN: 0309072174
Features: References
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TRT Terms:
Accessibility; Advisory groups; Aged; Alternatives analysis; Analysis; Census; Counties; Environmental justice; Forecasting; Impacts; Long range planning; Low income groups; Methodology; Metropolitan planning organizations; Minorities; Neighborhoods; Persons with disabilities; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation disadvantaged persons
Identifier Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Nov 6 2001 12:00AM
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