Group Leader: Dr. Mehri “Mehrsa” Mohebbi (@mohebbmi)
Dr. Mehri “Mehrsa” Mohebbi presently leads the Transportation Equity initiative at the UFTI. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Arts, and Planning (DAAP). She previously worked as an urban planner and qualitative researcher addressing health and social equity in transportation planning in different states across the country. Additionally, Dr. Mohebbi has extensive experience in designing and leading equitable planning processes and developing online and in-person community engagement methods. In the last few years, she has collaborated with national professional associations and served on different committees and task forces (such as American Planning Association (APA) Social Equity Task Force and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee). As of May 2020, she has been serving on the steering committee of a nationwide health equity initiative, the Planning for Health Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership (PHEAL).
Focus
‘Transportation Equity’ (TE) is a multifaceted research area. The mission of the UFTI‘s transportation equity research group is to 1) conduct interdisciplinary research emphasizing different equity aspects of transportation planning and engineering, 2) maximize our impact on communities’ everyday lives through advocacy and collaborating with non-profit and grassroots organizations, and 3) provide TE training for practitioners and policy makers whose area of work intersects transportation planning and engineering. Our contributors are affiliated with several non-profit and for-profit institutions across the nation and overseas.
Link to the TE Certification Program: https://techtransfer.ce.ufl.edu/training/other-courses/transportation-equity-te-certification-program/
TE Research Group Collaborators include:
