On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced it would make funding available to study whether a lack of regular and reliable access to transportation is linked to poverty.
Federal officials said one in four Americans does not have access to transportation on a regular basis that meets their daily needs. To research the link between transportation access and poverty, the FTA said it will award $6 million in grant funding to the University of Minnesota to design a program that identifies and addresses the factors leading to transportation insecurity.
