Special Issue of the Journal of Transport Policy focusing on International perspectives on transport and social exclusion

Stanley, Janet; Lucas, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2009.03.001

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“…Again, at the international level, it is often the poor who find it harder to access cars due to their lower incomes or formal public transport as the network may not reach poor neighborhoods [17,19,20]. When groups cannot physically access employment, schooling and services, transport poverty compounds social disadvantage and exclusion [21].…”

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Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

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The widening income gap in post-reform China has given rise to social inequality. Among those, transport poverty and inequality have significantly affected the daily life of low-income groups. While important, this is an under-researched topic in China. This gap in the academic literature is glaring given the country’s urbanization rates, sprawling cities and income differentials. Most previous studies have only focused on two aspects of transport poverty—job-housing imbalance and accessibility. A comprehensive understanding of the causes and impacts of transport inequality is currently lacking. Therefore, a systematic review of academic literature based on keywords relevant to transport poverty in China was conducted to provide a more complete assessment of the situation in Chinese cities. In total, 62 relevant studies were identified after close examination of the articles (including titles, abstracts, and full-texts). This set of articles allowed a number of general patterns to be identified. It was found that the most common causes of transport poverty include: a lack of access to private vehicles; uneven access to alternative transport options; inadequate public transport provision; jobs-housing imbalance; and the hukou system (a system of household registration which aims to regulate population distribution and rural-to-urban migration). The main impacts of transport poverty include: curtailed mobility and longer travel times; higher household expenditures on travel; reduced access to jobs and essential services; higher household expenditures on travel; and health and environmental issues.

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“…Shops, schools, post offices, and employment disappeared, making the villages less attractive for those who stayed and forcing others to leave, etc., all in all creating a downward spiral. See for example a special issue in Transport Policy (Stanley and Lucas 2009). The overall pattern of less or no population growth or even a decline, at the national and certainly regional level, is expected in many western countries.…”

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Toward a new generation of land use transport interaction models: a viewpoint

Wee

2015

JTLU

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Land use transport interaction (LUTI) models are often developed to model the interaction between the land use and transport systems for relatively large-scale spatial developments, like new residential or office areas, new main roads, or railway lines. In this paper I argue that we need a next generation of LUTI models that model trends such as peak car; decline in population, shops, services, etc.; impact of information and communications technology (ICT) on activity patterns and travel; and cycling policies. The current generation of LUTI models cannot adequately answer the policy questions raised by these trends. However, a major problem is that the future of these trends is uncertain, and we lack empirical research into the dynamics between these trends and their wider impact on land use and transport systems. Nevertheless, LUTI models can, by utilizing what-if calculations, help explore future trends and their implications. Other challenges for LUTI models include the calculation of a wider set of accessibility indicators, the inclusion of interactions between key actors in the transport and land-use system-serious gaming may prove a useful way to explore these interactions-and the development of dynamic visualizations. IntroductionThe traditional four-step transport models have been in use for several decades, providing insights into the expected travel behavior and traffic flows of candidate transport policy options, examples being new roads or rail lines, as well as options for land-use changes such as the building of new residential areas or office locations (e.g., Ortuzar and Willumsen 2011). In these models the transport system does not have an impact on land use, which is often in contrast to reality, as expressed in the saying: In the long term, every light rail line is located correctly. That is, the new light rail line, and in particular its stations, will fuel land-use changes in the vicinity of stations. In addition, the land-use system does not impact transport-both are considered exogenous. To deal with such impacts, mainly the impact of the transport system on land use, so called land use transport interaction (LUTI) models were developed more than two decades ago (e.g., Wegener and Fürst 1999;Hunt, Kriger, and Miller 2005;Wegener 2011). These models were mainly developed to provide answers to policy-relevant questions related to

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“…The new theme of social exclusion and transport introduced in 2007 reflected an intention to move Thredbo discussions beyond issues of contracting and economics towards the wider public policy agenda of transport. The initial focus was narrowly defined around social inclusion, an emerging area of scientific work at the time (Stanley and Lucas, 2009). However the scope of the discussion has widened considerably over the years, reflecting the extent to which the theme has matured.…”

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Workshop 6 report: Wider impacts of public transport and successful implementation of desirable and beneficial projects

Venter

Leong

2018

Research in Transportation Economics

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This paper reports on topics discussed at workshop 6 of the Fifteenth Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo 15), in Stockholm. The purpose of the workshop was to consider recent advances in identifying, understanding, and measuring the wider impacts of public transport, defined as those not typically included in assessments of direct user and system costs and benefits. While not all impacts are as yet well understood, progress is being made both conceptually and methodologically. A promising methodological convergence is apparent between disciplines dealing with different aspects of the social value of transport-for instance psychology and geography-and between different possibly overlapping definitions of wider impacts-such as accessibility, option value, and agglomeration benefits. The workshop also delved more deeply into the role of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and wider impact assessment in decision making. Case studies show that CBA does not inform decisions around project implementation as deeply as it might, and that assessments of wider benefits may open up space for manipulation of outcomes by vested interests. The workshop concluded that more work is needed on appraisal frameworks that are sufficiently transparent and rigorous to avoid abuse, and called for more case studies on the interaction between impact assessment and the political economy of institutions and decision makers.

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Special Issue of the Journal of Transport Policy focusing on International perspectives on transport and social exclusion

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Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

Toward a new generation of land use transport interaction models: a viewpoint

Workshop 6 report: Wider impacts of public transport and successful implementation of desirable and beneficial projects

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