Program objective

The Mobility Equity Research Initiative shall advance research and technology to expand accessibility and mobility to underserved communities, including people with disabilities, older Americans, Tribal Nations, and rural and disadvantaged communities. To achieve this, priority research areas include, but are not limited to, research proposals that support the following goals: • Enable all people within the multimodal transportation networks to reach their desired destination safely, affordably, and with a comparable level of efficiency and ease. • Reconnect communities and mitigating neighborhood bifurcation through land bridges, caps, lids, linear parks, investments in walking, biking and rolling assets, and other solutions. • Address disproportional impacts of crashes on underserved communities, including individuals with disabilities. • Expand access to critical community services such as education and healthcare through public transportation/mass transit services. • Increase housing supply, particularly location-efficient affordable housing, locally driven land use and zoning reform, rural main street revitalization, growth management, and transit-oriented development. • Address the unique challenges rural and Tribal communities face related to mobility and economic development, including isolation, transportation cost burden, and traffic safety. • Encourage an increase in housing supply, particularly location-efficient affordable housing, land use and zoning reform, rural main street revitalization, growth management, and transit-oriented development. • Incorporate and support integrated land use, economic development and transportation planning to improve the movement of people and goods and local fiscal health, facilitates greater public and private investments and strategies in land-use productivity, including rural main street revitalization or increase in the production or preservation of location-efficient housing.