Ep. 21: 4 Steps to Integrating Justice40 Guidance into Transportation Planning

Episode Summary:  Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to implementing Justice40 considerations. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 21:

• About the federal Justice40 initiative
• How the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is incorporating the Justice40 initiative
• How a disadvantaged community is defined by the USDOT
• Tools available to evaluate disadvantaged communities including the Climate and Economic Justice Screening tool and the Equitable Transportation Community Explorer
• Ways to supplement and enhance your understanding of the data provided by the above tools

Links:

• Justice40 Initiative: https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/justice40/
• USDOT Justice40 Initiative: https://www.transportation.gov/equity-Justice40
• Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/#3/33.47/-97.5
• Equitable Transportation Community Explorer: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0920984aa80a4362b8778d779b090723/page/Homepage/
• Census Reporter: https://censusreporter.org/

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 14 years of experience in transportation planning and is certified by MIT Media Lab’s Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten is an Associate Vice President and Director of Smart Mobility Planning with Modern Mobility Partners. Kirsten holds a M.S. degree in City Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Guest Speaker:

• Candace Foster, has over 3 years of experience in planning and is a transportation planner with Modern Mobility Partners. Candace holds a M.S degree in City and Regional Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm.  Service areas include smart mobility and transportation planning, demand modeling and traffic engineering, and data analytics and visualization.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com. 

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