Work

Identifying Winners and Losers in Transportation

Year: 2002

Type: article

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) of the population receive. Policy makers would then have additional information on which to base decisions.

Source: Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board

DOI: 10.3141/1812-22

Author: David Levinson

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Transportation Planning and Optimization

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Transportation, Minnesota Department of Transportation