Utilizing Arts and Culture to Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Communities Status: CompleteReport Date: 08/01/2024 Summary: Historically disadvantaged communities have been impacted disproportionately by transportation infrastructure projects. To mitigate project impacts in the future, transportation agencies can involve these communities throughout the project’s planning process. Local artists and culture bearers are good candidates to serve as liaisons between transportation agencies and the community because they can offer creative placemaking ideas and represent the community’s interests. This research project recommended a number of actions for implementation to ensure collaboration between transportation agencies and communities. The actions include developing a framework to better document the community engagement process to replicate successful processes, shifting the mindset about art as just an aesthetic outcome to incorporating arts and culture throughout the entire transportation planning process, providing regular and transparent information to communities throughout the process, and actively seeking artists and culture bearers to serve as creative contributors and liaisons to reach mutually beneficial outcomes for transportation agencies and the community. Final Deliverables: Utilizing Arts and Culture to Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Communities (Report #2024-12) Social Outcomes Improve by Incorporating Arts and Culture into Transportation Planning (Research Summary) Related Materials: Social Outcomes Improve by Incorporating Arts and Culture into Transportation Planning (Blog Post) Related Research:
