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Access to Opportunities: Redefining Planning Methods and Measures for Disadvantaged Populations

项目名称：	Access to Opportunities: Redefining Planning Methods and Measures for Disadvantaged Populations
摘要：	This project will be made up of two separate studies that together will investigate areas where transportation planning and engineering can better serve disadvantaged and underserved communities. An interdisciplinary team of planning and public health researchers from University of Arizona (UA) will investigate how standard measures and conceptions of walkability hold up across socio-economic contexts. Pilot data from a Center for Disease Control (CDC)-funded project suggest that many standard measures of walkability may miss important elements of the built and social environment that can faciliate or deter walking in disadvantaged communtiies. The project team will collect data using on-street interview methodology developed in Tucson and a mail survey in a sample of cities nationwide. The aim of this study is to produce actionable recommendations about how concepts like walkability should be defined, measured, and applied in disadvantaged neighborhoods. In parallel to this work, University of Texas, Arlington (UTA) engineering, public policy, and social work faculty will work with nonprofits and other service providers to characterize transportation gaps that result from system deficiencies at a regional scale. The project teramwill measure these gaps� impact on well-being in terms of health (physical and psycho-social), access to opportunities (work, personal, business, etc.), and community connectedness. This program will develop a roadmap for future research that can transform transportation planning practice to better account for disadvantaged communities.
状态：	Active
资金：	369257
资助组织：	University of Arizona
管理组织：	TREC at Portland State University
项目负责人：	Hagedorn, Hau
执行机构：	University of Arizona
主要研究人员：	Mattingly, Stephen
开始时间：	20170901
预计完成日期：	20191231
实际结束时间：	0