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Transportation & Economic Mobility: Getting to Work Detroit is a majority Black city surrounded by majority White suburbs. Black residents are more likely to rely on public transportation. and are less likely to be employed in

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Detroit is a majority Black city surrounded by majority White suburbs.

Black residents are more likely to rely

n public

transportation…. and are less likely to be employed in Detroit.

Transportation & Economic Mobility:

Getting to Work

Source: New Detroit Race Equity Report

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Over time, districts have spent more money

Transportation & Economic Mobility:

Getting to School

Source: Urban Institute, Student Transportation and Educational Access

to transport fewer students.

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Detroit’s Auto Insurance rates are among the highest in the nation.

Transportation & Economic Mobility:

Auto Insurance

Source: calculations by Poverty Solutions (data from Value Penguin & American Community Survey)

Relative to a comparable city, Cleveland, Detroit’s auto insurance is more than 3x as expensive.

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While it’s fairly easy to get to a supermarket by car... It’s much harder by public transportation – the mode relied on by most low-income people. Transportation & Economic Mobility:

Healthy Foods

Source: Dr. Joe Grengs research, Chair of Urban and Regional Planning Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning

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While it’s hard to imagine the sprawling region with public transport, this plan lays out a vision of what regional transportation in Southeast Michigan might look like.

Transportation & Economic Mobility:

Regional Transportation

Source: Regional Transit Authority, Master Plan

This map shows the 2016 Regional Transit Plan that did not pass – it was on the ballot in the November 2016 election.

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“In the United States, car ownership is still the best predictor of getting a job. It’s still the best way to get to healthcare. So if you don’t solve mobility, you don’t solve accessibility.” Pascal Van Hentenryck

Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, electrical engineering and computer science

Transportation & Economic Mobility:

Engineering Systems to Enhance Equity

Source: RITMO, Dr. VanHentenryck