Closing Address: Strategies for Successful Equitable Surveys

Public engagement for transportation and urban planning face many barriers to equity, as the sessions at VPET22 demonstrate; technology, hybrid solutions and best practices give practitioners the tools to reach wider audiences, particularly in environmental justice communities. In this session, we will share five key aspects to consider for your next online public engagement survey to ensure that you gather input from broad audiences. Join us as we look at MetroQuest survey examples from agencies and firms that succeeded in engaging equitably.

By utilizing tools like MetroQuest, planners can achieve greater equity in their public engagement efforts by ensuring that the necessary information is gathered, allowing stakeholders and planning teams to understand who they are hearing from, and providing the tools to find and close any gaps in the demographic range, thus reaching a more-representative sampling of the community.