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The concept of environmental justice is an increasingly important component of transportation policy and planning. It is fundamentally about fairness in transportation decision making and in allocating scarce transportation resources.

In order to help people better understand the basic components of environmental justice and how it can affect transportation policy, Institute of Transportation Studies researchers Shannon Cairns, Jessica Greig, and Martin Wachs wrote Environmental Justice & Transportation: A Citizen's Handbook, which the Institute published in January, 2003.

These pages have been created to make the Handbook more accessible and to provide a Web-based resource for links to additional sites pertaining to environmental justice.You can find out more by clicking on the links below.