Transportation Equity Coalition
Who is the Transportation Coalition?
The Transportation Equity Coalition is currently made up of representatives from TCAT, Gadabout, the Center for Community Transportation (including Carshare and Bike Walk Tompkins), Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County’s Way2Go program, GO ITHACA, Tompkins County Department of Social Services, and the Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council (ITCTC). Current members are listed in the sidebar.
Vision
We envision an equitable transportation sector that advances the quality of life for historically excluded people in Tompkins County and surrounding areas.
Mission
Through inclusive cross-sector partnerships, the Transportation Equity Coalition will identify, advocate, and promote equitable policies and practices while addressing the systemic inequities that affect access to safe and efficient transportation.
Get Involved
Are you passionate about advancing transportation equity in Tompkins County? Contact Way2Go at info@way2go.org to learn how you can get involved with the Transportation Equity Coaltion.
Seeking Evaluator
The Transportation Equity Coalition of Tompkins County is looking for a consultant to conduct a Transportation Equity Needs Assessment over the next six months. The goal is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of our transportation system more deeply and thoroughly. The consultant will engage community-based participatory research approaches to provide underserved residents the opportunity to contribute to transportation research and decision making and produce an assessment more reflective of their community.
The consultant will conduct surveys, stakeholder meetings and data analysis, and support focus group discussions. Proposals are due January 24, 2022 and will be opened and read at 10 am on January 25, 2022.
Click here for the full RFP. For questions contact, Dawn Montanye at dm773@cornell.edu.
Participate in the Upcoming Needs Assessment
Updates about the upcoming Transportation Needs Assessment will be shared as it develops. Contact Dawn Montanye at dm773@cornell.edu if you are interested in supporting the needs assessment. How you can help:
- Reach, inform, and engage diverse members of the community
- Participate in one of various focus groups
- Take and share out any surveys or in other forms of information gathering
- Share data and stories that are important to consider
Contact
Last updated January 11, 2022
Terms/Definitions
Historically Excluded
Groups who have been denied access and/or
suffered past institutional discrimination in
the United States. These groups may include
but
are not limited to: BIPOC individuals, Ethnic minorities, Differing
economic backgrounds, Individuals with disabilities, individuals using
English as another language, LGBTQIA+ individuals, Religious groups,
Mature learners, Veterans, Seniors.
Equity & Equality
Equity involves trying to understand and give people what they need to enjoy full, healthy
lives. Equality aims to ensure that everyone gets the same things in order to enjoy full, healthy lives.
Like equity, equality aims to promote fairness and justice, but it can only work if everyone starts
from the same place and needs the same things.
Equitable Transportation
Equitable transportation solutions are those that
are inclusive and consider all people as owners,
planners,
and decision-makers. They acknowledge and account for past and current
inequities, and provide everyone with the infrastructure needed to
succeed and thrive.
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