California Air Resources Board

Principal Investigator/Author: Margaretta Lin

Contractor: University of California, Berkeley

Sub-contractors: Just Cities

Contract Number: 22STC017

Project Status: Active

Relevant CARB Programs: Sustainable Communities & Climate Protection Program

Topic Areas: Sustainable Communities, Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Reduction & Climate Goals, Land Use & Transportation Research, Environmental Justice, People at Risk, Climate Change

Research Summary:

This project will contribute to the growing community engaged research movement by providing CARB’s Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division (STCD) with guidance on the appropriate tools, methodology, and engagement methods to meaningfully engage low-income communities of color and identify specific community-identified research topics and priorities that can better address diverse resident concerns and needs in research planning; and identify specific community-identified research topics and priorities that can better address diverse resident concerns and needs. The Contractor, its community partner, Just Cities, and a Community Engagement Research Advisory Committee (CERAC) will co- develop and implement a research community engagement plan to foster relationship-building with local communities and inform the Contractor’s findings. This project will inform how the Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division at CARB conceptualizes, defines, and solicits future research studies to support policy and programmatic efforts at the nexus of equitable land use planning, housing, transportation, and climate policy that can result in actionable change benefitting impacted communities.

Keywords: community engagement, community based participatory action research, housing, transportation and land use, sustainable communities, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), equity, impacted communities