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Topic: Transportation
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topics: Climate, Environmental Justice, Transportation
During our recent Chicago Truck Data Portal project, cameras counted 5,159 trucks and buses, 129 pedestrians, and 53 bicyclists in 24 hours at West 41st Street and South Pulaski Road in Archer Heights. Truck count researcher and Urban Resilience Associate Paulina Vaca reflects on how supply chains...
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topics: Environmental Justice, Technical Assistance, Transportation
Supporting Transportation Electrification: Leadership, Learning, Assistance, and Resources
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topics: Data Analysis, Housing, Transportation
Continuing our series digging into the H+T Index, today we highlight what we learned about who uses our most popular tool from a recent user survey. We received 117 survey responses. While that represents just a fraction of the H+T Index’s regular monthly user base — the tool is accessed more than...
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topics: Transportation
While travel decisions can be deeply personal, decades of (often racist) land use and transportation policies and practices help determine them. Exhibit A is policies and practices that have prioritized car-centric designs that among other harms escalate greenhouse gas emissions and traffic...
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topics: Climate, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
Imagine tomorrow, all vehicles in the world suddenly became battery powered. Would that achieve all our climate and environmental justice goals? Not exactly. What will help close the gap between equity and climate goals is an electrification transition that follows the principles of the Towards...
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Policy, Transportation
The main purpose of the H+T Index is to help users identify the most “location efficient” places across the United States by calculating the cost of housing as well as the cost of transportation to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the affordability of place. We learned through surveys...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
TransitCenter, CNT, and six LA-based community organizations worked with LA Metro to implement part of the agency’s strategy for working with CBOs. In our new report, Equity in Practice: Strengthening Transit through Community Partnerships, we reflect on what other agency practitioners can learn...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Transit agencies should continually interact with their riders and community members to ensure services meet their needs. Community engagement can take many forms, from agency staff hearing public comments on a finished project to working with constituents to design a plan or policy. Transit...
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
The H+T® Affordability Index highlights location efficiency by using an “apples to apples” comparison of housing costs. What’s the Question? Users often ask why we use the median-income household in every block group in a metro area, pointing out that this misrepresents the actual costs for the...
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topics: Climate, Environmental Justice, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Policy, Technical Assistance, Transportation, Urban Flooding, Water
We and our partners can help government agencies, nonprofits and community groups plan, apply for and implement new public infrastructure improvements.