"Inclusive Transportation" with Veronica O. Davis, PE

Island Press' "Inclusive Transportation" arrived at the right time. Veronica continues to be the one of the most insightful and inspiring voices in transportation.

I have to admit, right away, that I didn’t own a copy of Inclusive Transportation until I attended Transportation Camp 2024. It’s not because the great folks at Island Press didn’t send along a copy and an invite to talk to its esteemed author. It’s because I had to give it to my mom to read, and she’s now (hopefully) passed it along to someone in her network, and so on. I did buy a copy, too—but that’s been sent on to a friend in Austin—which is within traffic’s distance to Veronica’s current stomping grounds in Houston, where she currently serves as the city’ “Director of Transportation & Drainage Operations” inside Houston’s Public Works Department. It’s a big job and I can’t think of anyone better to lead the future of one of our biggest city’s mobility and accessibility options than Veronica.

The book's full title is Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. The idea here is not contentious: we’ve, as a country, broken the connections that bind comm…