NCHRP 08-160: Guide to Identify and Mitigate the Negative Effects of Gentrification Caused by Transportation Investment, expected completion date: 7/29/2026.

Researchers will examine the role of transportation investment and the investment decision-making processes that lead to gentrification. Specifically, this project will identify strategies, policies and data that state DOTs can use to avoid displacement and the other adverse impacts of gentrification on low-income and minority communities.

NCHRP 08-161: Cultivating Accountability Through Meaningful Public Engagement, expected completion date: 5/26/2026.

Based on recent experience with all-virtual public engagement as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will determine the challenges of meaningfully engaging minority, low-income and other vulnerable populations in transportation decision-making and identify effective engagement approaches that achieve equitable transportation outcomes.

NCHRP 08-162: Guidance for Implementing Equitable Transportation Decision-Making, expected completion date: 12/24/2024.  

This research project will examine transportation infrastructure’s role in enabling systemic inequities, its failure to ensure access for all users (urban and rural) and the causes of long-term community impacts such as gentrification and displacement. Researchers will identify effective policies and strategies in transportation investment decision-making to eliminate systemic racism, reverse impacts and ensure equity in future transportation investments.