Sponsored by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the Joint Subcommittee (JSC) on Transportation Equity is a collaboration between the Standing Committee on Strategic Management (ABC10) and the Standing Committee on Environmental Justice (ADD50). The focus of the JSC on Transportation Equity is to serve as a clearinghouse among the sponsoring committees on research and related activities associated with transportation equity within TRB.
Additionally, the JSC has the following responsibilities:
1. To serve as an organizing entity for a curated track on equity in transportation during TRB Annual Meetings.
2. Provide direction to the conference planning committee for the 2021 Transportation Equity Conference.
3. To develop webinars, e-circulars, cross-cutting sessions, research problem statements, syntheses of equity-related research (by topics consistent with the sponsoring committees’ arenas of work).
4. To identify areas for new research or innovative methods, tools, or policy frameworks associated with transportation equity.