Transportation Equity Tools

Research and Analysis

• Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University was formed in 1994 to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment.

• Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) is a diverse, nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment.

• Transportation Equity Network (TEN), a Gamaliel campaign, is a grassroots network of more than 350 community organizations in 41 states working to build a more just, prosperous, and connected America.

• The Community Impact Assessment (CIA) Web site serves as an information clearinghouse for transportation officials, regional development professionals and the general public interested in evaluating the effects of transportation planning and project implementation on a community and its quality of life.

Government Sources

• The United States Department of Transportation maintains the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration on Environmental Justice.

Useful Publications

• Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California Berkeley: Environmental Justice: A Citizen’s Handbook .

• Conservation Law Foundation’s City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods And Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation: This is a guidebook for urban, especially inner-city, residents who are impacted by unsafe streets and by pollution from traffic and bus depots and garages sited in the middle of their neighborhoods. It includes strategies for getting citizens and the media involved and ways to use the federal civil rights laws.