In response to the Department of Transportation's request for information on its 2024 update to its equity action plan, Urban experts provided feedback on metrics the Department has proposed using to measure progress toward equity in its 2023 equity action plan. The authors provided comments on the metrics corresponding to DOT's strategies for Wealth Creation; Proactive Intervention, Planning, and Capacity Building; and Expanding Access.
Authors
Chitra Balakrishnan, Amanda Hermans, Yonah Freemark, Rekha Balu, Gabe Samuels
- Pages
- 7
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- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Wealth Creation 2
- Metric: Reduce the number of direct displacements resulting from federal-aid highway projects. 2
- Metric: Increase the number of entities using local and economic hiring preferences on highway and transit projects. 3
- Metric: Increase DOT direct contract dollars to small disadvantaged businesses from 18.2% in FY 2021 to 22% by FY 2026. 3
- Proactive Intervention, Planning, and Capacity Building 4
- Metric: By 2025, increase by 5% the number of DOT discretionary grant applicants from disadvantaged communities who have never applied for DOT funding before. 4
- Metric: Work to meet the Justice40 goal that 40% of the benefits of certain federal investments flow to transportation disadvantaged communities. 4
- Metrics: Increase the number of new projects in disadvantaged communities utilizing formula funds from Justice40 covered programs; increase the total federal transit grant dollars announced or allocated for rural or Tribal areas. 5
- Expanding Access 6
- Metric: Reduce national transportation cost burden by 5%, including transportation travel cost as a percent of income, by FY 2030. 6
- Metric: Increase safe, affordable, multimodal access to key destinations, including: work, education, grocery stores, health care, affordable housing, and recreation. 6
- Metric: Reduce the race fatality ratio by population, meaning the national percentage of roadway fatalities per race over the percentage of population per race. 7
- Metric: Decrease in number of passengers with disabilities whose wheelchairs are damaged during air travel and who are injured in transfers to/from aircraft. 7
