Spatial and social inequities for educational services accessibility - A case study for schools in Greater Mumbai

Sharma, Gajanand; Patil, Gopal R.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2021.103543

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“…The Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient have also been used to examine accessibility inequalities, either in terms of access/proximity to transit stops (Delbosc and Currie, 2011;Jang et al, 2017) or access to opportunities including jobs (Ben-Elia and Benenson, 2019;Tomasiello et al, 2020;Zhu and Shi, 2022), government services (Neutens et al, 2010), schools (Guzman et al, 2017;Sharma and Patil, 2022;Talen, 2001), retail stores (Tahmasbi et al, 2019), and medical facilities (Park et al, 2023;Rong et al, 2020).…”

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Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Karner,

Pereira,

Farber

2024

Transportation

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Transportation systems play a pivotal role in facilitating access to out-of-home activities, enabling participation in various aspects of social life. But because of budgetary and physical limitations, they cannot provide equal access everywhere; inevitably, some locations will be better served than others. This realization gives rise to two fundamental concerns in transportation equity research and practice: 1) accessibility inequality and 2) accessibility poverty. Accessibility inequalities may rise to the level of injustice when some socioeconomic groups systematically have lower access to opportunities than others. Accessibility poverty occurs when people are unable to meet their daily needs and live a dignified, fulfilling life because of a lack of access to essential services and opportunities. In this paper, we review two of the most widely used approaches for evaluating transport justice concerns related to accessibility inequality and accessibility poverty: Gini coefficients/Lorenz curves and needs-gap/transit desert approaches, respectively. We discuss how their theoretical underpinnings are inconsistent with egalitarian and sufficientarian concerns in transport justice and show how the underlying assumptions of these methods and their applications found in the transportation equity literature embody many previously unacknowledged limitations that severely limit their utility. We substantiate these concerns by analysing the equity impacts of Covid-19-related service cuts undertaken in Washington, D.C. during 2020. The paper also discusses how alternative methods for measuring transportation equity both better comport with the known impacts of such changes and are consistent with underlying moral concerns.

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Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Karner,

Pereira,

Farber

2024

Transportation

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“…However, the assumption that the travel speed is constant fails to capture the reality of residential travel choices, which are sensitive to dynamic traffic patterns and are inherently heterogeneous [19]. Route-planning data provide more accurate fine-scale travel information, such as routes, time, costs, speed limits, traffic jams, and one-way streets, thus enabling researchers to conduct more detailed research on accessibility related to green spaces [20], job opportunities [21], and health services [22]. Consequently, route-planning data have become more widely employed in accessibility analyses to accurately quantify the accessibility of multi-tier healthcare services and avoid the misleading findings that arise from the limitations of traditional network analyses.…”

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Exploring Equity in a Hierarchical Medical Treatment System: A Focus on Determinants of Spatial Accessibility

Du,

Liu,

Luo

2023

IJGI

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It is essential to understand the spatial equity of healthcare services to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Spatial and non-spatial factors affect access to healthcare, resulting in inequality in the hierarchical medical treatment system. Thus, to provide a comprehensive equity evaluation, it is indispensable to investigate the extent to which spatial accessibility to healthcare services varies due to various factors. This study attempted to analyze the determinants of healthcare accessibility under multi-trip modes and integrate them into Theil index, as a demand index to evaluate spatial equity in the system. The results reveal an inadequate and inequitable distribution of healthcare resources. While access to primary hospitals is limited (47.37% of residential locations cannot access them on foot), 96.58% of residential locations can access general and tertiary hospitals via public transport or driving. Furthermore, inequitable access to the three-tiered medical system was evaluated on a more granular scale, with primary hospitals being closest to achieving equity (inequitable for only 48.83% of residential locations), followed by general and tertiary hospitals (82.01% and 89.20%, respectively). The unequal residential locations brought on by an abundance of medical resources are far from those with a shortage of resources (66.86% > 5.34%). It is thus suggested that services be expanded or resources be transferred to move toward a more equitable system. Our findings provide policymakers with insights into how to increase accessibility to public health.

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“…In addition, some scholars have studied the relationship between education policy, residential differentiation, and the distribution of educational resources by introducing the research theories and methods of political economy, urban sociology, and educational economics [12,13]. With the development of GIS technology, scholars have paid more attention to the spatial allocation of basic educational resources, including school district division [14,15], agglomeration mode [16], accessibility measurement [17,18], spatial location [19], etc. Regarding education, accessibility studies have analyzed preschools [20], and have considered primary or elementary [21,22] or secondary or high schools [23,24], or both primary and secondary schools [25].…”

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The Equity of Basic Educational Facilities from the Perspective of Space

Huang

Cui

2023

Sustainability

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Basic education pursues “balance” and “quality” under the premise of “universalization”. High-quality and balanced education is the general strategy of international education. We used urban network tools to measure the spatial equity of three types of basic educational facilities (kindergarten, primary school, and middle school) in the main urban area of Lanzhou City, China, from the perspective of supply and demand. This can optimize the allocation of educational facilities, and make up for the shortage of basic educational facilities. It can also provide a scientific reference and new ideas for research on public service facilities. The conclusions are: (1) The distribution of basic educational facilities presented a typical pattern of belt-shaped clusters, river trends, and dense east and sparse west. The spatial dislocation between facilities and residential buildings was significant and occurred in numerous instances. (2) The supply of basic educational facilities was weak. There were significant differences in spatial accessibility among different types and regions. The spatial accessibility of kindergartens (34.83%) was the best with regard to walking conditions, followed by primary schools (27.43%) and middle schools (21.11%). (3) The distribution of basic educational facilities was affected by factors such as historical development, natural geography, social economies, and the travel behaviors of residents; (4) It is necessary to improve the problem of spatial imbalance through the implementation of refined planning management and resource allocation of infrastructure, the construction of a “community life circle”, and the establishment of an early warning mechanism for academic degree attainment combined with big data.

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Spatial and social inequities for educational services accessibility - A case study for schools in Greater Mumbai

Cited by 26 publications

References 32 publications

Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity

Exploring Equity in a Hierarchical Medical Treatment System: A Focus on Determinants of Spatial Accessibility

The Equity of Basic Educational Facilities from the Perspective of Space

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