Resources and Reports

Transportation equity is a civil and human rights priority. Access to affordable and reliable transportation widens opportunity and is essential to addressing poverty, unemployment, and other equal opportunity goals such as access to good schools and health care services.

Public Health and Equity Principles for Transportation - American Public Health Association

Guiding Principles for Transportation Authorization - Equity Caucus at Transportation for America

The Rockefeller Foundation Infrastructure Survey - Hart Research Associates /Public Opinion Strategies

Statement for the Record - House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure - Beckley, West Virginia Field Hearing on “Improving and Reforming our Nation’s Surface Transportation Programs”

Steering Economic Recovery: Latinos in the Transportation Sector - NCLR

Primer on Federal Surface Transportation Authorization and the Highway Trust Fund - Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Testimony of Wade Henderson, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference On Civil And Human Rights - Senate Commmittee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs - Hearing on “Public Transportation: Priorities And Challenges For Reauthorization”

Stranded Voices: Transit Riders Speak Out About America’S Mobility Crisis - The Amalgamated Transit Union

Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America - The Brookings Institue

Getting to Work: Transportation Policy and Access to Job Opportunities - The Leadership Conference

The Road to Health Care Parity: Transportation Policy and Access to Health Care - The Leadership Conference

Getting Home: Transportation Equity and Access to Affordable Housing - The Leadership Conference

Where We Need to Go: A Civil Rights Roadmap for Transportation Equity - The Leadership Conference

More Transit = More Jobs - Transportation Equity Network (TEN)

Transportation 101: An Introduction to FederalTransportation Policy - Transportation for America

Equity Caucus Statement of Principles - Transportation for America

Dangerous by Design 2011: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths - Transportation for America

The U.S. Rural Population and Scheduled Intercity Transportation in 2010: A Five-Year Decline in Transportation Access - U.S. Department of Transportation

Organizations Working on Transportation Equity

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