United States Department of Transportation
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Linking Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) and Transportation Equity
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2023-03-01
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Abstract:Transportation agencies have increasingly pursued the application of TSMO strategies to optimize the performance of the existing transportation system and provide lower cost and more sustainable solutions than traditional transportation infrastructure projects that add lanes to meet safety, mobility, and reliability challenges. An emphasis on transportation equity can create the opportunity for identifying how TSMO strategies can play an effective role in addressing the needs of disadvantaged, underserved, or overburdened populations, thus making it important to define the connections between TSMO and equity. Because transportation inequities result from a complex combination of past actions and external factors, changes in management and operations of the existing transportation system alone will not achieve total transportation equity. However, TSMO can help advance transportation equity with the goal of optimizing the multimodal transportation system for all users. Although transportation equity is not a new concept, it is an evolving field, which creates challenges in evaluating and addressing it. Sometimes, a single agency may not be able to address the equity issue on its own or may have conflicting objectives with other agencies that they would need to partner with to address an issue.
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