We seek to hold TREC at PSU and ourselves accountable for enacting change through an anti-racism action plan. These goals will shape our evolving short and long-term strategies and actions.

Contribute to changing the transportation profession to be anti-racist and promote racial justice through lifelong learning.

• In collaboration with PSU’s academic units, we will invest time and funding to support, retain, and recruit BIPOC students to undergraduate and graduate transportation programs, and support them in the transition to the professional workforce.
• Change university curricula and experiences, so that future professionals understand the roles of racism, equity, and justice in transportation and have the tools to make change .
• Change university curricula and experiences to elevate BIPOC scholars engaged in transportation engineering and planning so that future professionals are introduced to a diverse mix of lived experiences and cultural priorities in transportation.
• Incorporate racial justice into TREC’s K-12 programs and professional development events.

Ensure that our transportation research activities contribute to advancing racial equity and justice and challenge institutional racism.

• Support research that addresses racism and supports racial justice in transportation, and prioritize implementation of that research.
• Improve our research processes at every stage, including peer reviews, data collection, proposal forms and selection criteria, and partner engagement.
• Support our BIPOC scholars engaged in transportation research at PSU and in our programs.