Transportation planning
Transportation Planning Planning Offices Office of Policy Analysis and Research Environmental Justice and Title VI Program
Environmental Justice and Title VI Program
Program Functional Responsibilities include:
- Promote policies and strategies to enhance the participation of low income and minority communities in transportation decision making
- Manage the environmental justice grant program
- Coordinate Title VI compliance requirements for transportation planning program
The Environmental Justice Program promotes context sensitive planning and interdisciplinary effort to addressing the interests and concerns of low-income and minority populations in transportation planning and project development. The effort include reaching out to low income and minority communities; identifying and engaging underrepresented communities early in transportation planning; and developing information, data, analytic tools, and educational workshops.
Environmental Justice Grant Program
The Department provides grants to promote Environmental Justice: Context Sensitive Planning. The grants demonstrate different approaches to community involvement, land use transportation strategies, and planning activities in low-income and minority communities. Currently, $3,000,000 in grants and $250,000 per application are available annually, budget permitting.
Title VI – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Working with Civil Rights Office, this effort intends to maintain a process to coordinate and implement federal requirements and to ensure transportation planning program is in compliance with those requirements.
Special Studies
OPAR produces in-house and contract studies on Climate Change and Energy, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), ITS Architecture, Environmental Justice, and other major issues in transportation planning. The primary objective is to identify emerging issues in transportation planning and provide information and analysis on these subjects to decision makers, technical staff, and transportation communities. The effort includes inter-agency collaboration with other state and local agencies, university and research institutions and non- profit organizations.
Sustainable Communities, Mineta Transportation Institute, May 2001 (PDF)
Documents and Publications
- Environmental Justice Desk Guide - This Environmental Justice Desk Guide was developed to provide guidance and background information to planners at all levels (state, regional, local and community) on the principles and best practices in Environmental Justice and Context-Sensitive Planning. This Desk Guide is the first comprehensive document that addresses Environmental Justice in transportation planning in California.
- Director's Policy on Environmental Justice
- Deputy Directive on Environmental Justice
- Past Cycle FY 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 Environmental Justice: Context-Sensitive Planning for Communities Grant Program
- Grant Program - Environmental Justice Context-Sensitive Planning for Communities - The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Division of Transportation Planning (DOTP) provides grants to promote Environmental Justice: Context-Sensitive Planning for Communities. An estimated $1,500,000 million in grants and up to $250,000 per application are available annually, budget permitting. For more information on the EJ grant program, please refer to the information below
For further information, contact Marlon Flournoy at Marlon Flournoy, or 916-651-6889.