Ep. 5: 6 Steps to Addressing Equity in Safety Planning and Engineering

Episode Summary:  Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, and guest Malaika Faciane, all with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners and engineers can do to plan for equitable safety in transportation.  Listeners will learn the following in Episode 5:

• The value of inclusivity and engaging the community


• How to identify key performance indicators for equity in safety


• How to establish your metrics with an equitable mindset


• Reasons and ways to apply an integrated approach to addressing safety challenges


• Benefits of looking at the transportation system as a whole, when identifying safety solutions


• Importance of considering equity and the disproportionate impacts of safety on underserved communities when deciding on where to invest in infrastructure

Links:

• Making Our Roads Safer; 28 Proven Safety Countermeasures that offer significant and measurable impacts to improving safety https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/provencountermeasures/pdf/FHWA-SA-21-071_PSC%20Booklet_508.pdf


• Vision Zero Equity Strategies for Practitioners http://visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/VisionZero_Equity.pdf


• Exploring Best Practices for Equity in Transportation https://www.nsc.org/safety-first/exploring-best-practices-for-equity-in-transportat


• At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity https://saferoutespartnership.org/resources/report/intersection-active-transportation-equity

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has almost 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.


• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 13 years of experience in transportation planning and most recently got certified by MIT’s Media Lab in their Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten holds a M.S. in City Planning from Georgia Tech and is the Director of Smart Mobility Planning at Modern Mobility Partners.

Guest Speaker:

• Malaika Faciane, PE, PTOE, RSP2I has over 17 years of experience in traffic and transportation engineering with special interest in multimodal roadway safety. Malaika holds a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London and is a Senior Traffic Engineer at Modern Mobility Partners.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm.  Service areas include transportation planning, travel demand modeling, traffic and revenue forecasting, traffic engineering, project prioritization and performance measures, funding strategies and grant applications, all looking through a lens of new and emerging technologies.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com.  If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast, please email [email protected].