Meeting Travel Needs: Becoming Reacquainted with a Community’s Unmet Travel Needs
Transportation in Los Angeles is deeply unequal. There are populations that face additional burdens that are not currently addressed by our transportation network. For agencies like the Gateway Cities Council of Governments to address these inequities and create a better transportation system, these needs must first be identified and acknowledged.
This research is focused not on transportation solutions, but on the methods of gathering information on the basic issues that individuals face when it comes to their unmet travel needs. The goal of this research is to identify the best practices to collect data on the unmet travel needs of a neighborhood, particularly for disadvantaged populations, so that decision-makers are intimately familiar with the problem before they try to solve it.
