[sustran] Re: FW: transport and equality

[Todd Litman]

See our report "Evaluating Transportation Equity" available at:

	http://www.islandnet.com/~litman

It discusses various meanings of transportation equity and how they can be
applied in practice. It also summarizes the literature on the subject. Here
is the bibliography (my favorite is "Access for All," but it may be
difficult to find):

Bibliography

David Albright, John Hamburg, and Henry Richards, The Divided Highway:
Transportation Equity and Violence, Alliance for Transportation Research
(Albuquerque), 1996.

Steven Burrington and Bennet Heart, City Routes, City Rights: Building
Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation,
Conservation Law Foundation (Boston; www.clf.org), 1998.

Robert Bullard and Glenn Johnson (eds), Just Transportation; Dismantling
Race & Class Barriers to Mobility, New Society Publishing (Gabriola Island,
BC), 1997.

Hank Dittmar, "Isn't It Time We Talked About Equity" Progress, Vol. IV, No.
5, Surface Transportation Policy Project (Washington DC; www.transact.org),
June 1994.

David Forkenbrock and Lisa Schweitzer, Environmental Justice and
Transportation Investment Policy, Public Policy Center, University of Iowa
(Iowa City), 1997.

Phil Goodwin, "Demographic Impacts, Social Consequences, and the Transport
Debate," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1990, 76-89.

David Hodge, "Social Impacts of Urban Transportation Decisions: Equity
Impacts," in The Geography of Urban Transportation, Susan Hanson (Ed.)
Guilford Press (New York), 1986.

C. Jotin Khisty, "Operationalizing Concepts of Equity for Public Project
Investment," Transportation Research Record, 1559, 1997, pp. 94-99.

Douglass Lee, "Making the Concept of Equity Operational," Transportation
Research Record 677, 1987, pp. 46-53. 

Schaeffer and Sclar, Access for All, Columbia University Press (New York),
1980.

Rosenbloom and Altshuler in "Equity Issues in Urban Transportation", Policy
Studies Journal, Autumn 1977, p. 29-39.

The Highway Cost & Pricing Study, by Cambridge Systematics for the
Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation Translinks 21 project includes
comprehensive equity analysis.

Access to Opportunity: Cooperative Planning to Improve Mobility for
Residents of Inner-City Communities, East-West Gateway Coordination Council
(St. Louis, MO), 1995.


Please share your findings with the list.

Sincerely,

Todd Litman, Director
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
"Efficiency - Equity - Clarity"
1250 Rudlin Street
Victoria, BC, V8V 3R7, Canada
Phone & Fax: 250-360-1560
E-mail:  litman at islandnet.com
Website: www.islandnet.com/~litman


At 05:48 PM 4/19/99 +0800, you wrote:
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>Can anyone give some guidance to Kurt on transport and equity?
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>Many thanks
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>John Whitelegg
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>From:	kurt.andersson at helsinki.fi [SMTP:kurt.andersson at helsinki.fi]
>Sent:	11 April 1999 14:48
>To:	John Whitelegg
>Cc:	harri.hakala at helsinki.fi
>Subject:	RE: transport and equality
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>  Dear Mr. Whitelegg,
>Thank you for all the information you provided me in my quest for
>material on transport and equity. You are right, this subject seems not
>to be studied much, at least in detail. Unfortunately, out of the books
>you recommended only one is available in finnish libraries. I think I
>will have to use my swedish connections to get the rest of the books.
>You recommended for me to send you a letter on my research interest
>which you can bounce on a discussion list. It has taken me a while to
>bring my work to a point where I could construct some text that could
>describe my research problems.  Appreciating your help following is a
>short description on what I am doing and what I am looking for. The
>following text is also attached as a Rich Text Format (RTF) file, in
>case it is easier to forward to the lists (I have not yet enjoyed
>doscussion lists).
>I am doing my graduate research on
>the equity of space and transportation
>possibilities. In short my research
>will consist of choosing two or three
>ethical theories on which I will
>reflect transportation practices and
>the division of public space. Possible
>aspects I will look into are equality
>of space among users in same space and
>time, equality of accessibility,
>equality of subsidies and taxing on
>different transport modes, and
>equality via the downgrading of
>natural, social and cultural
>environment. I have not been able to
>find much research on this subject or
>these subjects. The following articles
>are the only ones I have been able to
>find that more or less resemble my
>research subject:
>The Ethics and Politics of Private
>Automobile Use
>Author:  Meaton, Julia; Morrice, David MORALITY, ENERGY, AND THE 
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>....rtf file not included...
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