U.S. DOT Equitable Transportation Community (ETC) Explorer is an interactive web application that uses 2020 Census Tracts and data, to explore the cumulative burden communities experience, as a result of underinvestment in transportation, in the following five components: Transportation Insecurity, Climate and Disaster Risk Burden, Environmental Burden, Health Vulnerability, and Social Vulnerability.

DOT considers Census tracts to be “disadvantaged” in communities with a Final Index Score greater than 0.65 (65th percentile). USDOT considers communities as “disadvantaged" in a component or indicator if their percentile score is greater than 0.65 (65th percentile) in that area.

Census Tracts/projects areas at “0%” are considered the least disadvantaged and “100%” are the most. DOT considers a census tract to be experiencing disadvantage if the over...

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