Equity
Basics
STUDY: Police Stops Don’t Stop Car Crashes
An explosive new study found that higher rates of state patrol traffic stops — which increase the possibility of dangerous contact between people of color and law enforcement — does not lessen car-crash rates.
July 14, 2021
U.S. Finally Gets First Mobility as a Service Platform
Pittsburgh just became the first U.S. community where every resident can feasibly and affordably trade their private cars for an app.
July 9, 2021
Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates
The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.
July 6, 2021
Fear of Assault Keeps Women From Walking
And transportation leaders aren’t doing enough to design streets that can make people of all genders feel comprehensively safe traveling outside cars.
June 28, 2021
Stats Show Black and Indigenous People Suffer Disproportionate Road Deaths
The U.S. is still failing to make meaningful progress to end the decades-long racial disparity in fatal car crash rates across modes, a new study finds — and things got worse during the pandemic.
June 23, 2021
STUDY: New Bike Lanes Aren’t Associated With Displacement of BIPOC, Low-Income People
The installation of new protected infrastructure for bicyclists is not associated with the displacement of people of color or of low-income urban residents, a new study reveals.
June 21, 2021
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world.
June 18, 2021
SET YOUR CALENDARS: How to Radically Shift the Way the U.S. Does Infrastructure
America is on the brink of making one of the biggest investments in transportation infrastructure in a generation — and a new event will explore why we need an even bigger cultural shift towards mobility justice if we want to do it right.
June 8, 2021
These 15 Urban Highways Have Got to Go
A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of BIPOC residents were forcibly displaced — including the site of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
June 2, 2021
Study: Cycling Rates Low Unless Women Are Riding
Around the world, cities that do the best job of catering to the needs of women cyclists also have the highest level of cycling overall, a new study finds — and the U.S. has among the lowest share of female riders on the planet.
May 13, 2021
