Advancing Transportation Equity - Community Conversations Pilot Project

Studying how transportation affects equity and identifying transportation strategies and approaches that will meaningfully reduce disparities.

In the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan, MnDOT committed to studying how transportation affects equity and identifying transportation strategies and approaches that will meaningfully reduce disparities. To do so, MnDOT launched the Advancing Transportation Equity Initiative in early 2018. The initiative currently includes research and engagement components.

The engagement component – Advancing Transportation Equity: Community Conversations – includes a series of in-person, in-depth conversations between MnDOT and groups, agencies and organizations that work with and represent underserved communities in Minnesota. Through these conversations MnDOT hopes to glean insight and gain information directly from underserved communities regarding their unique experiences and struggles with transportation. The project started as a pilot in Northwest Minnesota and is now being expanded to other regions.