Transit planning, access, and justice: Evolving visions of bus rapid transit and the Chicago street

Sukaryavichute, Elina; Prytherch, David

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.001

Cited by 16 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Drawing upon methodological approaches by critical transportation and mobilities scholars concerned with policies and practices of infrastructures of mobility (Attoh, 2019; Sukaryavichute & Prytherch, 2018), this article is part of a broader research project that follows two methods of inquiry: a materials analysis of policies and ethnographic work conducted over the summer of 2022. I focus on how the coloniality of debt is expressed in Puerto Rican transportation public policies, and how the legacy of militarised colonialism immobilises Viequenses through the poor passenger ferry service.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opposing powers at the helm and the immobilities of passenger‐ferry governance in Vieques, Puerto Rico

Rivera

2023

Geographical Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Almost 20 years have passed since Viequenses succeeded in their struggle to kick out the US Navy from their island, yet residents have been left stranded facing issues of the dispossession of the island's most poor, alongside slow clean‐up efforts and deteriorating health outcomes. Drawing upon approaches from recent critical transportation geographies, this article uses a mobility justice framework to understand how the afterlives of over 60 years of direct militarised colonial violence continue to repeat through Viequense mobile life. I particularly focus on how Vieques' environmental injustices become mobility injustices through the poor ferry service. The article explores the governance of the maritime transportation service by disentangling its mobile politics, revealing the deeper impacts of coloniality on infrastructures of mobility. I do so through a critical policy analysis of legislative measures, plans, reports and grant proposals prepared by Puerto Rican state authorities from 1999 to 2021. Recognising the close relationship between debt and infrastructural landscapes in Puerto Rico, I use debt as an analytical tool to explain how it is constitutive of mobility regimes on the island. Through this analysis, the article centres on the creation of the Maritime Transportation Authority (ATM) as an institutional actor in charge of Viequense mobilities, detailing how it was enmeshed in fiscal and political tensions that resulted in extreme im/mobilities to its passengers. I find that the struggle for ownership over mobilities is a characteristic of the mobile politics of the ferry service, defined by an unequal power distribution between institutional actors and users, codified by public policies. This demonstrates how multiple dimensions of justice intertwine within mobility politics, aggravating existing environmental injustices into mobility injustices.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opposing powers at the helm and the immobilities of passenger‐ferry governance in Vieques, Puerto Rico

Rivera

2023

Geographical Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Karayanni 2014, Ullah 2018 and North America (e.g. Currie 2009, Todaro 2016, Sukaryavichute and Prytherch 2018, Molavi 2020. Context relative studies are to a large degree conducted within political science, anthropology and (yet rarely) history.…”

Section: Structural Characteristics (I): Horizontal Linesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Access to justice research: On the way to a broader perspective

Storgaard

2023

Oñati Socio-Legal Series

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper a baseline of contemporary access to justice research is established. The baseline clearly illustrates key features of the research field suggesting that while the field of research has become more multifaceted in the course of the last two or three decades, it is nevertheless very much dominated by law scholarship and structural analysis of legal service provision. Departing from this overview of access to justice research as of today, five calls for future research on access to justice explicated in the reviewed literature is presented and discussed. I argue that future research on access to justice should: 1) Reach a clearer understanding of the problem (of access to justice), 2) consider a multidisciplinary approach, 3) support and develop evidence-based policy by committing to empirical research, 4) study a wider variety of social realities and 5) look for quality. The reasonings of this paper are based on a scoping literature review.

show abstract

“…Geographic impedance is the opportunity or cost paid by residents to travel to public facilities, which is usually expressed using travel time or geographic distance. The OD cost matrix is one of the most popular expressions of geographic impedance [51,52], and some researchers have calculated the travel time of residents driving to essential services based on the origin-destination time cost matrix and GIS road network analysis [53].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity Evaluation of Elderly-Care Institutions Based on Ga2SFCA: The Case Study of Jinan, China

Jin,

Deng,

Wang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

With the deepening trend of aging, the issue of elderly care for the aging population has become a matter of concern for all sectors of society. Elderly-care services have become increasingly vital. Elderly-care institutions, a major component of the elderly-care system, are an important part of public facility resource provision; the spatial distribution of elderly-care institutions (ECIs) directly affects the equitable access of the elderly to public resources. To cope with the current pressure of population aging and limited resources for the elderly, this study aims to explore the relationship between population aging and the supply of ECIs in Jinan, China. Using the ArcGIS platform, this study analyzes the spatial allocation of ECIs, provides improved supply capacity modelling of ECIs based on the Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Approach (Ga2SFCA), and evaluates the equity of ECIs in terms of accessibility, supply–demand equity, and spatial equity. The results show that there are large differences in spatial accessibility between different levels of ECIs, there is a mismatch of supply and demand, the number and size of existing ECIs do not meet the needs of the elderly, and the distribution of resources in small ECIs is highly inequitable. These results can provide a guiding direction for optimizing ECIs and urban road network planning and can also provide new insights for urban planners to assess the equity of public service facilities.

show abstract

Transit planning, access, and justice: Evolving visions of bus rapid transit and the Chicago street

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Opposing powers at the helm and the immobilities of passenger‐ferry governance in Vieques, Puerto Rico

Opposing powers at the helm and the immobilities of passenger‐ferry governance in Vieques, Puerto Rico

Access to justice research: On the way to a broader perspective

Equity Evaluation of Elderly-Care Institutions Based on Ga2SFCA: The Case Study of Jinan, China

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About