(Bloomberg News) The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to give more weight to factors including including social and environmental benefits in deciding which local mass-transit initiatives ...

The agency hopes the elimination of fares will boost ridership, improve access and support environmental sustainability.

and social connection. This brief’s primary focus is the relationship between urban public transportation and health and health equity. Access to public transportation in rural settings ...

Hampton Roads Transit, the primary mass transportation system in Hampton Roads ... administration’s public stance against diversity, equity and inclusion, HRT is proactively removing this ...

campus, which were well served by the transit system. This map highlights how ... Incorporating a User Perspective to Recognize Social Equity Implications, Transportation Research Record: Journal ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Fifty-one years ago, a brand-new rail transit system opened in the Bay Area ... BART Board has become focused on various social equity issues, establishing policies that have ...

health advocates and transit users gather to celebrate Transit Equity Day. They’re calling for increased access to mass transit, such as allowing people 18 and under to ride Connecticut buses ...

Public transit is the obvious choice, but San Diego’s transit system leaves much to be desired. Led by the San Diego Transportation Equity Working ... at great personal, social, health and ...

Rapid advances in technology, including mobile applications that facilitate ridesharing, are transforming surface transportation with the potential to expand transit ridership, social equity ...

The county commissioned the study, first suggested by Commissioner Kimberly Overman, amid the social ... mass transit system like light rail. The consultants recommended an office of equity ...

“But we knew we could do more.” To begin righting the imbalance, USGBC posited social equity as one of seven system goals for LEED v4, and formed a Social Equity Working Group to, as Owens puts it, ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to give more weight to factors including affordable-housing policy in deciding which local mass-transit initiatives will get federal money. Its proposed ...