Equity and Traffic Safety at Caltrans
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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) began developing their groundwork for safety and equity to come together. Over the past two years, Caltrans has made strides forward in this goal, starting with establishing a new Division of Safety Programs to build California’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) on four safety-focused principles: Double Down on What Works Accelerate Advanced Technology […]
Equity and the Louisiana Safe Routes to Public Places Program
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Louisiana DOTD recently added an equity component to its traffic safety Safe Routes project scoring criteria, with encouraging results.