Chasing TIGER: Federal Funding Opportunities and Regional Transportation Planning

Lowe, Kate; Sciara, Gian-Claudia

doi:10.1177/1087724x17732583

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“…Competing goals may cause confusion and conflict between the two entities (16). Furthermore, because projects are often tied to specific sources of transportation funding, those selected in the LRTP or the TIP may be opportunistic, constraining the ability of a region to fully implement plans truly consistent with its visioning (17).…”

Section: Metropolitan Transportation Planning and Decision Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity-Oriented Criteria for Project Prioritization in Regional Transportation Planning

Krapp

Barajas

Wennink³

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Transportation inequities, the consequences of decades of auto-oriented planning alongside discriminatory land-use and transportation planning and policy decisions resulting from structural racism, severely limit opportunities for people of color and other marginalized populations. While a growing body of work has examined inequities with respect to long-range transportation planning, less research examines how equity is incorporated in short-term planning processes via the Transportation Improvement Program. This research reviewed how the metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) that serve the 40 largest U.S. urbanized areas used equity-based criteria for transportation project prioritization in regional planning. Just over half deployed at least one equity criterion for allocating transportation funds, which fell into one of six categories with varying degrees of complexity and potential for impact. While most MPOs included equity in their prioritization criteria, the methods could be improved to align better with more complete definitions of transportation equity, focusing on how targeted groups are defined, more comprehensive methods for equity evaluation, and an increase in the weight that equity is given in prioritization. MPOs and other agencies implementing transportation projects should adopt a justice-oriented framework for project prioritization that ensures that projects first affirmatively remedy historical inequities and work with affected communities to adopt appropriate and meaningful solutions.

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Section: Metropolitan Transportation Planning and Decision Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity-Oriented Criteria for Project Prioritization in Regional Transportation Planning

Krapp

Barajas

Wennink³

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…the program was immensely popular, with 1,450 applications submitted for the inaugural competition. Only 51 projects were funded (Lowe and sciara 2018).…”

Section: The Distribution Of Federal Grantsmentioning

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It Takes a Coalition: The Community Impacts of Collaboration

Craig

2020

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Members of Congress frequently collaborate on policy initiatives, reaching out to colleagues in both parties to find common ground on solutions for the problems faced by their constituents. Using a novel dataset of over 30,000 “Dear Colleague” letters sent by members of the 111th Congress, I use the collaborative relationships that exist in the earliest stages of the policy process to measure the social influence of legislators. I demonstrate that districts represented by members of Congress who are better connected to their colleagues receive a greater share of federal grant money. I argue that this is because collaborative legislators are well‐positioned to be influential allies to strategic bureaucrats who want to maintain a broad base of support for their programs in Congress. Thus, devoting resources to building relationships with their colleagues is one way members of Congress can more effectively support the communities they represent.

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