Introduction

Our Draft 2025 Mobility Opportunities Plan (MOP), set for endorsement later this year, will identify key transportation barriers experienced by residents of Wilmington, Delaware region.  It will make recommendations to help overcome these burdens and improve community mobility and economic opportunity.

Exceeding WILMAPCO’s requirements under the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the MOP advances our commitment to better involve underrepresented communities in the planning process.  It serves as an update to the 2019 Transportation J‍u‍s‍t‍i‍c‍e‍ Plan while remaining in line with current federal guidance.

As an agency, we are committed to incorporating Title VI throughout our planning process.  Contracts with third-party firms, as well as our personnel manual, feature all federally-required non-discriminatory clauses and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) assurances.

Recent Plans/Reports

• 2023 – Transportation Justice Bus Connectivity Analysis
• 2020 – Urban Technology Deserts
• Transportation Justice Video
• 2019 – Transportation Justice Plan

Interactive Maps

Several of the maps in the Draft 2025 Mobility Opportunities Plan are available as online interactive maps, via the links below.  Please download KMLs of the data to use in your projects!

• Economic Opportunity Neighborhoods and Group Concentrations
• Food Deserts – Transit to Supermarkets
• Limited English Proficiency, Low Literacy, and Limited Digital Neighborhood Clusters
• Mobility Challenged Neighborhoods

Several of the maps in the 2019 Transportation J‍u‍s‍t‍i‍c‍e‍​ Plan are available as online interactive maps, via the links below.  Please download KMLs of the data to use in your projects!

• Supermarket Connectivity
• Pharmacy Connectivity
• Hospital Connectivity
• Library Connectivity
• Low Wage Employment Center Connectivity
• Medical Center Connectivity
• Community Center Connectivity
• Senior Center Connectivity
• State Service Center Connectivity
• LEP and LL Clusters
• EJ Neighborhoods
• MC Neighborhoods
• Food Deserts – Transit to Supermarket
• ARCCA Pedestrian and Transit Analysis

Historic Plans/Reports

• 2015 – Transportation Justice: Accessibility and Mobility Report
• 2013 – Environmental Justice & Title VI: Transportation Equity Report
• 2009 – Environmental Justice: Transportation Equity Report
• 2007 – Transportation Justice: Accessibility and Mobility Report
• 2003 – Environmental Justice: Transportation Equity Analysis for the WILMAPCO Region

Media Coverage & Features

• Spotlight Delaware: Addressing Transportation Inequities in Wilmington, September 2024
• FHWA GIS in Transportation Newsletter: “Spotlight: Equity in Transportation,” Spring 2023
• FHWA TPCB: “Case Study: The Wilmington Area Planning Council’s Transportation Justice Initiative,” March 2022
• Poster Session at the 2021 Transportation Research Board’s Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity
• WHYY Story, August 14, 2019
• Delaware Public Media Story, August 16, 2019
• Delaware Business Times Story, September 16, 2019
• State of Transportation Planning 2020 — Moving People Over Cars: Mobility for Healthy Communities.  The American Planning Association, Transportation Planning Division.  “Tackling and Racial and Class Transportation Inequities in the Wilmington, Delaware Region.”  Pages 62-68.