As transportation professionals, we know transportation plays an important role in public health equity within our communities. TRB hosted a webinar on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. It provided perspectives from state, metropolitan, and municipal levels to better integrate transportation and health equity. The webinar explored how these transportation providers use health equity to frame planning strategies and to evaluate and prioritize projects.

This webinar was sponsored by the TRB Standing Technical Committees on Health and Transportation, Community Resources and Impacts, and Equity.

The slides and recording are available.

Webinar agenda and presenters

• Integrating health equity into transportation planning and evaluation– Nissa Tupper, Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Health equity indicators and criteria – Betsy Harvey, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Health equity considerations in citywide land use and transportation plan (Denver Moves Everyone 2050) – Taylor Phillips, City and County of Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure
• Question and answer session moderated by Kelly Rodgers, Streetsmart

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Use health equity as a means to frame community livability issues
• Develop policy-relevant and policy-sensitive health equity indicators
• Prioritize projects using health equity evaluation criteria

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar was approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for Certification Maintenance Credits. Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website to claim your credits: https://www.planning.org/cm/. If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact the APA.