Transportation Planning for Access to Jobs: Job Access and the Metropolitan Planning Process in Hartford, St. Louis, and Detroit

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• Creators:
  Laube, Melissa ; Lyons, William ; vanderWilden, Philip
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Environment and Planning
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  City Planning Equity (Justice) Metropolitan Planning Organizations Mobility Welfare Recipients
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404635
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Connecticut ; Detroit (Michigan) ; St. Louis (Missouri) ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Environment and Planning
• Abstract:
  Federal, state, and local welfare reform initiatives may require the planning and development of new and innovative public transportation services to ensure that ex-welfare recipients have the needed mobility to reach employment opportunities, many of which may be outside of traditional transit markets. This report documents job access planning activities undertaken in Hartford, Connecticut, St. Louis, Missouri, and Detroit, Michigan. Each of the three case study areas have initiated significant planning efforts focused on developing transportation solutions which meet locally defined goals and objectives for welfare reform. What these three areas have in common is the important role that the metropolitan transportation planning process plays in facilitating a collaborative environment for the planning and development of job access strategies. City-to-suburb transportation problems require a regional approach to problem solving, and --- as demonstrated in each of the three case study areas --- the involvement of the metropolitan planning organization (MPO), regional and community public transit operators, social service and workforce development agencies, and the private sector --- is critical to forging a metropolitan strategy to job access in support of welfare reform. The report describes these findings in more detail, and summarizes the job access planning activities in each of the three metropolitan areas. Topics addressed include local conditions; the nature and magnitude of the job access problem; types and characteristics of existing and planned services; anticipated impact of proposed solutions; organizational roles and responsibilities; context of the planning effort within the metropolitan transportation planning process; resource constraints; and planning methods.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:70fcdee76f617a0d1989c865224d32c751eea9ab081853182c07df5a8a34a701059a025a83c7a7c8caa660ed8de2b51382f7b1169edbf6b6051b85505371533d
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13302/dot_13302_DS1.pdf
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