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Assessing The Effectiveness Of Title Vi Requirements On Tennessee's Local Transportation Planning : A Comparison Among Metropolitan Planning Organizations (Mpos), P'Ersides Zambrano
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Title Vi Requirements On Tennessee's Local Transportation Planning : A Comparison Among Metropolitan Planning Organizations (Mpos), P'Ersides Zambrano
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Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 enforced non-discrimination on programs receiving federal financial assistance. Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) as federally-funded agencies are subject to observe Title VI. In this research, the way in which Title VI provisions are being addressed within the local transportation planning process are analyzed, focusing in particular on Tennessee's MPOs. A comparison at the different strategies used to address Title VI was offered based on an analysis of the information from the 1999 MPOs Title VI Assessment Reports, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) letters of response to MPOs concerning the reports, and …