Mobility Justice

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Reimagining Research

  • by Maya Hsu

In January of 2023, I joined the Feminist Research Institute (FRI) as a research assistant and worked on a project exploring the mobility justice movement. As an undergraduate student new to research, I was expecting to mostly observe the graduate students and FRI’s Director, Sarah McCullough, as they championed the project. In most research settings, undergraduate students play minor roles and mostly observe. Instead, I became a fully integrated member of the research team, an experience that has profoundly shaped my understanding of equity, mentorship, and learning.

Mobility Justice

All people should have access to freedom of movement, as well as access to needed services, goods, information, and places. Mobility justice is both a field of research and an active practice that seeks to address factors, both historical and contemporary, that limit people’s movement and develops solutions that lead to liberation.

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Improve Transportation By Engaging Diverse Communities

  • by Sarah Elizabeth Mccullough

In order to improve transportation strategies and projects, government agencies must seek modes of community engagement, particularly with historically excluded communities of color. To understand this landscape better, and to promote just transportation planning, Rebecca van Stokkum (Geography graduate student) and I studied four successful participatory planning processes in San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno, and Los Angeles. We aimed to identify what made the processes successful and where further improvements were needed.

Moving From Equity to Justice in Transportation in a Time of Crisis. Dr. Sarah McCullough, Principal Investigator. C. Sequoia Erasmus, Graduate Student Researcher

Preliminary Results of Research on Equity and Diversity in Transportation

  • by Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani

Associate Director Sarah McCullough and ITS graduate student C. Sequoia Erasmus recently released preliminary results of the research study, “Accounting for Sociocultural Factors and Assessing Equity in Active and Sustainable Transportation.” This study assesses the status and impact of equity work in active and sustainable transportation in California.

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Join the Mobility Justice Working Group

The FRI-sponsored Transportation Equity and Mobility Justice Working Group is gearing up for its third quarter. The goal of the working group is to provide more opportunities for students and faculty to convene and collaborate on themes and topics related to transportation equity in a dynamic and thoughtful space. It is affiliated with the Feminist Research Institute (FRI) and the Institute for Transportation studies (ITS), and includes researchers from Community Development, Civil Engineering, and Transportation Technology & Policy.

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