Environmental Justice Analysis in Transportation Planning and Programming: State of the Practice

This report documents the state of the practice among State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) regarding how these agencies are considering and addressing environmental justice concerns in their transportation planning and programming process. Based on a detailed scan of publicly available planning and programming documents for all 52 DOTs and a sample of 100 MPOs, the report chronicles commonly applied techniques and emerging new approaches for conducting Environmental Justice (EJ) assessments. It is organized around the following focus areas: engaging EJ populations; identifying EJ populations; understanding needs of EJ populations; assessing benefits and burdens of proposed plans; determining whether transportation plans may result in disproportionately high and adverse effects on EJ populations; and deploying strategies to address such effects. The report concludes with a discussion of overarching best practices observed: integrating EJ analyses with plans and programs, and using EJ analyses to support decision making.

• Record URL:
  • https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/environmental_justice/publications/tpp/fhwahep19022.pdf
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/43567
• Corporate Authors:

  ICF Consulting

  1725 Eye Street, NW, Suite 1000
  Washington, DC  United States  20006

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Twaddell, Hannah
  • Zgoda, Beth
  • Aimen, David
  • Morris, Anne
• Publication Date: 2019-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Glossary; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 109p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Environmental justice; Equity; Literature reviews; Metropolitan planning organizations; Public participation; State departments of transportation; State of the practice; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01707771
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HEP-19-022
• Contract Numbers: DTFH6116D00015
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 12 2019 9:18AM