Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racism Lens
- Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racism LensThis guide from the University of Minnesota Libraries is for students, staff, and faculty who are incorporating an anti-racist lens at all stages of the research life cycle.
Transit Equity Dashboard
- Transit Equity Dashboard
This dashboard measures how well transit networks in seven U.S. cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco-Oakland, and Washington, D.C.) connect people who’ve been marginalized within those metro areas to the jobs, services, and amenities they need to thrive. Using February 2020 as a baseline, the dashboard looks at metrics like the number of jobs people can reach within a limited timeframe or budget, travel times to hospitals and grocery stores, and service frequency, and tracks how these measures have changed in each region.
Transportation, Race and Equity: A Syllabi Resource List for Faculty
- Transportation, Race and Equity: A Syllabi Resource List for FacultyThe objective of this effort is to collect readings and other resources that faculty can use in their syllabi for university courses on transportation planning and engineering, so that their courses will better address issues of race, racism, equity, and justice in the transportation field
Database Searches
- Catalog Search: Transportation and Social EquityA search of the Northwestern University Transportation Library collections for resources on transportation and social equity.
- Social Equity Results from TRIDReferences covering social equity/justice, environmental justice, and civil rights from TRID, the database of the Transportation Research Board.
Reading & Resources
Thanks to Transport Chicago for this list of readings and resources.
- Anti-racist and Mobility Justice Resource ListFrom Transportation Choices Coalition, a list of books, articles, videos, podcasts, and more on anti-racism and mobility justice.
- A Call to CourageA letter and action package developed by Canadian urbanist Jay Pitter for learning about and addressing anti-Black racism and all forms of urban inequities.
- Confronting Power and PrivilegeLand use, equity, environmental and social and racial justice advocate Tamika Butler on a framework for confronting power and privilege for inclusive, equitable, and healthy communities.
- Five Essential Books to Read on Making Cities Anti-RacistSuggestions for required reading for anyone interested in defining the future of anti-racist cities.
- How Bike Riders Can Be Anti-Racist: 3 Steps to TakeSimple approaches to confront power and privilege in your community, at the office, nad on a ride.
- Inclusive Transit: Advancing Equity Through Improved Access & OpportunityPractical steps transit systems can take to advance social equity. From TransitCenter.
- The Planner's Beginner Guide to the #BlackLivesMatter MovementA compilation of resources by Danielle Dirksen, meant to be a starter guide for those looking to educate themselves on the #BLM Movement.
- Systemic Racism Can't Be Fixed Without Tackling It Within Cycling: 14 Stories From Black People Who Love BikesWhy we must talk about race when we talk about bikes. From Bicycling Magazine.
- To Fight Racism, Transit Has a Key RoleBlack Lives Matter protests are showing how city leaders and transit agencies must reprioritize infrastructure investments, a public transit official argues.
- The Untokening: ResourcesCollective statements on mobility justice from The Untokening, a multiracial collective that centers the lived experiences of marginalized communities to address mobility justice and equity.
- Whose Streets? Black StreetsAn article from urban planner Amina Yasin with anti-racist actions for planners and urbanists.
- ‘Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black LivesTransportation Planner Dr. Destiny Thomas warns that pedestrian-friendly street redesigns that happen without diverse public input can end up harming the communities they serve.
Social Equity and Planning
- Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 1: GuideDesigned to help Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) analyze and address equity effectively in long-range, regional, multimodal transportation planning and programming processes. The guide walks through public engagement, identifying populations for analysis, identifying needs and concerns, measuring impacts, further understanding those impacts, and developing strategies to avoid or mitigate inequities.
- Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 2: Research OverviewDescribes the results of a research effort conducted to identify ways in which equity in public transportation can be analyzed through an integrated participatory and quantatative approach that is adaptable to plans and programs developed by MPOs in partnership with transit agencies that relates to environmental justice and Title VI procedures, implementation, and reporting compliance.
A Framework: Confronting Power and Privilege for Inclusive, Equitable, and Healthy Communities
- A Framework: Confronting Power and Privilege for Inclusive, Equitable, and Healthy CommunitiesSteps for examining power and privilege in support of healthy and inclusive communities.
Untokening 1.0 — Principles of Mobility Justice
- Untokening 1.0 — Principles of Mobility Justice
From The Untokening: principles outlining recommendations for mobility justice that are rooted in the liberation of historically marginalized communities.
TRB Activities and Resources
- TRB Snap Search: Social EquitySnap Searches provide a succinct summary of current activities in the Transportation Research Board on a given topic.
- TRB Snap Search: Underserved PopulationsSnap Searches provide a succinct summary of current activities in TRB on a given topic
Additional Resources
Recommended Books
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes by Call Number: HE5737 .H64 2016ISBN: 9780803276789Publication Date: 2016
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Call Number: E185.61.S667 D75 2020Publication Date: 2020
Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity by Call Number: HE315. H638Publication Date: 2009
Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility by Call Number: HE318 .J96Publication Date: 1997
