The Transportation Insecurity Project is rooted in the belief that being able to regularly move from place to place in a safe, timely, and affordable way is crucial for the flourishing of individuals, families, and entire communities.
Vision
We are a team of researchers, engineers, and students dedicated to bringing together stakeholders from a wide variety of sectors to work toward better understanding transportation insecurity and its impact. Through partnership we seek to:
- serve as a leading source of data and analysis about transportation insecurity.
- build awareness of transportation insecurity and its impact on society to inform public policy.
- educate and advise users of the Transportation Security Index and other measurement tools to enable rigorous research and evaluation.
- identify and evaluate solutions that move people from “transportation insecurity” to “transportation security.”
Building Community
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Who We Are
ALEXANDRA K. MURPHY, PhD is a sociologist and co-creator of the Transportation Security Index. At Mcity she serves as the associate director of social science research. Murphy is also an assistant research scientist at Poverty Solutions in the Ford School of Public Policy at U-M, and a faculty associate of the Population Studies Center at the university’s Institute for Social Research.
GREG McGUIRE is the managing director of the Mcity public-private partnership, as well as labs like the Mcity Test Facility, U-M’s purpose-built proving ground for testing mobility technologies. Before joining Mcity, McGuire spent 20 years designing and building tools to efficiently share resources and measure consumption, with a focus on mobility services and their intersection with our Internet-enabled society. He was one of two engineers who built and scaled Zipcar, and he founded several mobility and data analytics startups.
Transportation insecurity is an extraordinarily complex problem that requires many solutions, be they a combination of public policy, public transit, personal vehicles, ride services, micromobility—or something not yet imagined. We must measure the impact of those solutions to make sure new technologies are improving access to transportation and unlocking opportunity.
GREG MCGUIRE
Managing Director, Mcity