While one of the themes of our research is removing transportation barriers to advance social equity, we are not doing enough to center racial equity in our work at the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University (PSU). We are committed to leveraging our resources, skills and circles of influence to address systemic racism, and specifically anti-Blackness, in academia and the transportation industry but recognize this is a long journey.

In solidarity with our Black, Indigenous, and students and colleagues of color, we are holding ourselves publicly accountable in sharing the beginning of our plan for implementing anti-racist strategic objectives in our short and long-term work. This plan is iterative, and will evolve as we reflect on what’s working or not.

If you have any feedback or questions, please contact TREC Director Jennifer Dill at jdill[at]pdx.edu or TREC Associate Director Hau Hagedorn at hagedorn[at]pdx.edu.