
Measuring Transport Equity
- 1st Edition - May 30, 2019
- Editors: Karen Lucas, Karel Martens, Floridea Di Ciommo, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 8 1 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 8 1 9 - 8
Measuring Transport Equity provides a range of methods with the potential to shape transport decision-making processes, thus allowing for the adoption of more equitable transp… Read more
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- Written by a collection of top researchers and upcoming scholars in the transport field
- Shows how to apply transport equity measurement ideas in the real world through case study examples
- Covers emerging transport topics, including the use of advanced measures of inequality
- Includes learning aids, such as methodology, application, policy relevance, and further reading
Part One: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Measuring transport equity: Key components, framings and metrics
Part Two: Benefits of transport: Accessibility
3. An index to measure accessibility poverty risk
4. Using person-based accessibility measures to assess the equity of transport systems
5. Equity analysis of dynamic bike-and-ride accessibility in the Netherlands
6. Can the urban poor reach their jobs? Evaluating equity effects of relocation and public transport projects in Ahmedabad, India
7. Transport equity in low-income societies: Affordability impact on destination accessibility measures
Part Three: Burdens of transport: Health, environment and other externalities
8. The health impacts of urban transport: Linkages, tools and research needs
9. Assessing health inequalities related to urban and transport determinants of mental health
10. A public health approach to assessing road safety equity – the RoSE cycle
11. Distribution of transportation "goods" and "bads" in a Canadian metropolis: a diagnosis of the situation and potential interventions to tackle environmental disparities
12. Safety and daily mobilities of urban women: - Methodologies to confront the policy of "invisibility"
Part Four: Social outcomes from transport interventions
13. Applying a subjective wellbeing lens to transport equity
14. Social impact assessment: The case of bus rapid transit in the city of Quito, Ecuador
15. Measuring the influence of social capital and personal networks on transport disadvantage
16. Using a capability approach-based survey for reducing equity gaps in transport appraisal. Application in Santiago de Chile
17. A behavioral framework for needs-based transport assessment
18. Assessing the equity impacts of a transportation investment program
Part Five: Closure
19. Conclusion
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 30, 2019
- Language: English
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