The Pursuit of Equity: Analyzing Vehicle and Pedestrian Crashes in Low-income and Minority Communiti

Communities are often unsure of which walkability reforms to focus on, how to prioritize investments, or what outcomes they can anticipate. There is also often confusion around how to define transportation equity and how to properly analyze inequities once a definition of equity has been agreed to. This webinar will highlight research done to analyze regional patterns of vehicle-pedestrian crash data for disparities in New Jersey, comparing regional benchmarks against patterns observed in places of low-opportunity including the region’s racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty and communities of concern. It will also cover the Microscale Audit for Pedestrian Streetscape (MAPS) Mini tool, a tool that assesses the activity-friendliness of streets, sidewalks and crossings, and identifies specific features that are feasible to modify and related to physical activity.