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Rural Champions,
Save the date for the next webinar in FHWA's Equity in Roadway Safety Webinar Series which will be held Wednesday, June 14th.
Tools to Conduct Equitable Safety Data Analysis
Date: June 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET
Organization: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Learn about USDOT tools that can support you to equitably analyze data for roadway safety planning, project prioritization, and discretionary grant applications.
- 1 to 2 pm ET – Overview presentations of ALL tools
- 2 to 3 pm ET – In-depth demonstration of ONE tool
U.S. DOT Equitable Transportation Community (ETC) Explorer
The U.S. DOT Equitable Transportation Community (ETC) Explorer is a NEW interactive web application which uses 2020 Census Tracts and data to help practitioners distribute the benefits of investments to address transportation related causes of disadvantage.
You will walk away with an understanding of how to generate scores from the tool. This score can be used in applications for USDOT discretionary grant programs or in making STIP project
selections.
FHWA Title VI Toolkit
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national origin. Learn about how to access and analyze race and ethnicity data and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) data from data.census.gov.
You will walk away with practical strategies to access and use U.S. Census data on race and ethnicity and LEP for compliance with Title VI.
Screening Tool for Equity Analysis of Projects (STEAP) and HEPGIS Equity Maps
You may walk away with a GIS mapping of your community overlaying demographic and crash data.
My Street
This NEW FHWA tool is intended for small cities and MPOs. You will walk away with a list of locations with pedestrian safety risks in your community.
Before the session, visit www.mystreetpedsafety.org and email “Contact” to request user access. You must also gather a zipped shapefile of your jurisdiction’s pedestrian crash data.
To learn more about this webinar, click here.
Link: https://usdot.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_MkH7OuAqQQSC9Lnxdxt7KQ
Thank you for letting us be your rural road safety hub!
Jaime Sullivan
Center Director
National Center for Rural Road Safety
info@ruralsafetycenter.org
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