Canadian Community Initiatives Addressing Transport Poverty_ Catalogue_2Aug2022.xlsx

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1	Catalogue of Canadian Community Initiatives Addressing Transport Poverty, for Mobilizing Justice Partnership, V2
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3	Goal of project	To work towards advancing transport equity by identifying community organizations and initiatives addressing transport poverty
4	Date	Spring 2022
5	RA	Kara Martin; kara.martin@mail.mcgill.ca
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7	Suggested Citation	Ismail, S., Martin, K., Smith Lea, N., Winters, M, Hosford, K., & Simor, D. (2022). Catalogue of Canadian Community Initiatives Addressing Transport Poverty, for Mobilizing Justice Partnership. Toronto: The Centre for Active Transportation, Clean Air Partnership. Available online at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D--7WCJ31JGu0jL1vGiwjOdmnSZ2OPIT/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109352300005656810498&rtpof=true&sd=true
8	Acknowledgements:	This work is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ’s partnership grant: Mobilizing justice: towards evidence-based transportation equity policy. Learn more at www.mobilizingjustice.ca
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10	Variable	Description
11	Purpose of the Data Dictionary	The Data Dictionary lists terms and categories from twotransport poverty initiatives scans conducted in 2021 and 2022. The Dictionary serves as a guide for ensuring that the community initiatives scan is easy to interpret and utilize for future research purposes for the Mobilizing Justice project.
12	City, town, province (if province-wide), or national	Location of operation for the community initiative.
13	Region	Across 6 categories: British Columbia; Prairies (Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba); Ontario; Québec; Atlantic (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland); and North (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut). Additionally, separately recorded are initiatives that operate nationally.
14	Community Initiative Name	Community initiatives for the purposes of this catalogue include grassroots coalitions or programs of larger organizations, with a partial or central focus on transportation issues that benefit those experiencing transport poverty.
15	Host Organization	The larger umbrella organization that hosts and supports the community initiative (if any). If the initiative has no larger umbrella organization, the name of the community initiative is repeated here.
16	Collaborating partners	Initiatives that collaborate with partners from other organizations to make their work possible, as mentioned on respective websites.
17	Explicitly focus on transport inequity	Based on their website or social media, if the initiative provides services, supports campaigns, or develops programs that make mode-specific transportation more accessible to individuals experiencing transport poverty.
18	Equity-deserving focus	Based on their website or social media, if If the initiative explicitly states they are focused on equity-deserving groups. Across 11 categories: Children and Youth, Housing Insecure (includes Unsheltered), Incarcerated (Friends and Familes of), Indigenous, Low income, Newcomers (includes Foreign Workers), People with Disabilities (Visible and Invisible), Racialized, Seniors, Women and Girls, 2SLGBTQ+
19	Equity-deserving led	Based on their website or social media, if the organization explicitly states it is led by people from equity-deserving groups.
20	Built Environment (urban, suburban, exurban, rural)	The type of built environment that the initative is located in: Urban, Suburban, Exurban (almost rural but still part of the commutershed of a larger city), Rural. Initatives can occur in multiple environments (i.e. Urban/Rural, Urban/Suburban, Urban/Suburban/Exurban, or All).
21	Mode focus	The transportation mode focus of the organizations/initiatives. The modes included are active transportation, walking, cycling, public transit, sustainable transportation and rideshare. Active transportation is any form of self-propelled, non-motorized transportation, primarily walking and cycling. Walking includes travel by foot as well as while using assistive mobility devices. Car/rideshare is a form of transportation that entails a mutual arrangement where a passenger travels in a privately owned vehicle for a fee. The category “sustainable transportation” was used when the mode focus of the initiative encompassed both active transportation and public transit.
22	Programming & Projects	Complementary programs and projects the host organization leads.
23	Web page (if available)	The most relevant webpage for understanding the community initiative.
24	Highlighted/flagged	These 45 initiatives may be of particular interest (e.g. unique approach to addressing transport poverty that could be shared or modelled.
25	Description	A summary (approx 100 words) that provides a brief overview of the highlighted initiative (and host organization if any), who is leading it, the date it was launched, its vision/mission, and what it does.
26	Initiative added by	Initials of researcher who added the initiative.
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