Reducing Social Exclusion in Highly Disadvantaged Districts in Medellín, Colombia, through the Provision of a Cable-Car

Cordoba, Diego Zapata; Stanley, John; Stanley, Janet

doi:10.17645/si.v2i4.127

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“…The findings showed no statistically valid relationship between housing-costs and the Metrocable, but the main benefits were an improved accessibility to the city's job market and social equity [50]. Different authors validated the reduced risk of social exclusion by analyzing the increasing number of trips making and improving a person's social capital using the Metrocables as an example from a country with a developing economy [51]. As supplement to this, another work investigated accessibility and its specific inquiry on female residents and their security role.…”

Section: Social Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Are We Taking Off? A Critical Review of Urban Aerial Cable Cars as an Integrated Part of Sustainable Transport

Flesser

Friedrich

2022

Sustainability

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The overall growth of the world’s population and urbanization lead to rethinking transport planning, further developing the conventional transport systems, and complementing new ones usefully, especially in urban environments. One way to cope with this challenge is to leave behind the already severely saturated urban land use model and move to the third dimension. This includes the use of urban aerial cable cars, which can complement conventional public transport in certain transport relations. Accordingly, this paper aims to answer how the recent, past, or planned implementations of urban aerial cable cars are assessed in the scientific literature, what open research questions need to be answered to enhance the success of transport systems, and what the chances are of cable cars becoming a standard part of transport planners’ repertoires. Following systematic literature review methods, 54 studies from different databases were identified and processed in a multi-stage procedure to provide transparent insight into the relevant literature. The results, especially concerning urban and transport integration, are discussed in detail, emphasizing that cable cars have already partially found their niche, but their role in the urban environment has not yet been sufficiently studied. In conclusion, the study’s originality fills the gap in providing a review of urban aerial cable cars from a transport planning perspective by systematically considering today’s globally available literature.

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Section: Social Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Are We Taking Off? A Critical Review of Urban Aerial Cable Cars as an Integrated Part of Sustainable Transport

Flesser

Friedrich

2022

Sustainability

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“…Recently, emerging research on transportation vulnerability reflects social exclusion. For example, the public aerial cable car system in Medellin, Colombia, connects a low‐income area long isolated from urban areas due to its high altitude, significantly improving the mobility of residents and employment in this area (Cordoba et al, 2014). Poor access to the employment centre, business centre and medical service centre for local single‐parent families, the elderly people and low‐income groups reflect the sufferings of social exclusion (Páez et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Travel experience and health service amongst older people from the perspective of social exclusion: Policy implications of alleviating transport deprivation

Yuan

Zhang

2022

Health Social Care Comm

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The vulnerable population are often faced with the transport deprivation resulting in social exclusion (e.g. lack of access to healthcare service or suffering from lower health service quality). The disparity in travel experience can lead to different results of healthcare service seeking amongst the vulnerable population such as older adults with and without disabilities. This study applies Heckman's two-stage procedure and the data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Based on having controlled the influence of individual financial situation and self-rated health, results show that longer travel time is observed in older adults who have paid the visit to the higher class healthcare facilities (HHCF). Besides, the visit to HHCF is negatively associated with disability and positively with travel mode with less discomfort. Further, the relationship between disability and the class of visited healthcare facilities is found to be conditioned on the travel time and travel mode, wherein such relationship could be intensified by longer travel time and be alleviated by travel mode with less discomfort. Therefore, social policies to alleviate transport deprivation are critical for accessing better healthcare services amongst older people with disabilities.

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“…The availability of public transport services and the ability of residents to access services is a fundamental contributor to social equity [22], particularly in a Global South city such as Ulaanbaatar where a majority of ger district households do not have reliable access to a private car [23][24][25]. Cordoba et al [26] note the existence of an historic inverse correlation between mobility and poverty, and Matsuyuki et al [27] suggest that increased mobility can, in many instances, be taken to be as a proxy for reduced levels of poverty. Access to public transport therefore provides a foundational means to offer mobility, and thus, by definition, access to the opportunities of the city.…”

Section: Housing Access and Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Sustainability and Ulaanbaatar’s ‘Ger Districts’: Access and Mobility Issues and Opportunities

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This paper explores the concept of social sustainability in Ulaanbaatar’s ger districts in relation to access and mobility. Although ger districts are well-established in Mongolian culture as ephemeral encampments with transient residents, contemporary ger districts have become large and permanent residential districts that are now home to an estimated one-third of the country’s population. The more recent growth of the ger districts has taken place in three decades since Mongolia embraced market-based liberal economics, coinciding with waves of socially and economically-motivated urbanisation. More recently, difficult environmental conditions in rural Mongolia have created new waves of migration. The unfolding situation means that the ger districts have grown with little of the forward planning present in other built areas of the city. In turn, this has led to significant imbalances in the provision of transport services into the ger districts and the problems of access and mobility that this paper has highlighted. This paper has identified community-based local transport and delivery services as one potential means for addressing existing access and mobility shortcomings. Such approaches could provide temporary or complementary services alongside other public policy approaches.

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Reducing Social Exclusion in Highly Disadvantaged Districts in Medellín, Colombia, through the Provision of a Cable-Car

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Are We Taking Off? A Critical Review of Urban Aerial Cable Cars as an Integrated Part of Sustainable Transport

Are We Taking Off? A Critical Review of Urban Aerial Cable Cars as an Integrated Part of Sustainable Transport

Travel experience and health service amongst older people from the perspective of social exclusion: Policy implications of alleviating transport deprivation

Social Sustainability and Ulaanbaatar’s ‘Ger Districts’: Access and Mobility Issues and Opportunities

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