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...

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...