Engineering for Equity: Asking the Right Questions

ABSTRACT

Equity is becoming a higher priority for transportation agencies and organizations, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in access and as racial injustice has inspired new commitments to antiracist practices. Still, while questions of diversity, access, and bias have come into focus within our industry and have even, at times, led to more equitable public engagement during the planning stages of a project, centering equity should not stop there. Here, Thompson et al encourage transportation practitioners to remember that our work does not have an unspecified end--it impacts actual people whose lived experiences matter and who should be treated equitably.