Transport Justice: Designing Fair Transportation Systems

ISBN-13: 9780415638319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str.

Karel Martens

Opis

Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the focus of transportation has been on the performance of the transport system and ways to improve it, avoiding congestion on the main road system and achieving free flowing travel.

There are implicit distributive consequences of this approach, with some benefiting more than others from these improvements, resulting in calls for policy changes to dress the inequities that have developed over time. Building on the on the extensive literature on disparities in mobility and accessibility, including the bodies of research on spatial mismatch, women and transport, urban service delivery, and the more recent body of literature on transport and social exclusion, "Transport Justice" argues that a distributive approach to transport (or accessibility) is necessary to systematically address these social disparities.

Critical reading for transport planners and students of transportation planning, this book develops a new approach to transportation planning that takes distributional effects as its starting point, and justice as its end.

O autorze

Karel Martens is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel) and at the Institute for Management Research, Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). He also holds the Leona Chanin Career Development Chair at the Technion.