Title

Identifying winners and losers in transportation

Authors

David Levinson

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2002

Subject Area

Population - Gender, Social Issues - Income, Social Issues - Low Income, Transport services - Cost

Abstract

The issues surrounding transportation equity, both external and internal to transportation, are explored. Several examples are provided of transportation improvements that impose transportation costs on more individuals than those who are benefited. Beyond counting the number of winners and losers, several quantitative measures of equity are suggested and applied to a test case: ramp meters in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul, in Minnesota. It is recommended that transportation benefit-cost analyses include an "equity impact statement," which would consider the distribution of opportunities to participate in decisions and the outcomes of those decisions (in terms of mobility, economic, environmental, and health effects) that different strata (spatial, temporal, modal, generational, gender, racial, cultural, and income)

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by TRB.

Comments

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