Evaluating transportation equity

Download or read book Evaluating transportation equity written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is easier to measure than accessibility, so conventional transport performance indicators, such as traffic speed and roadway level-of-service, tend to measure motor vehicle mobility, while other forms of access tend to be undercounted and undervalued.6 This skews planning and investment decisions to favor motor vehicle travel at the expense of other modes, and so tends to favor people who [...] Public Facilities and Services • Amount and distribution of public funds for transport facilities and services. [...] A reasonable compromise between these conflicting objectives is to strive for cost recovery with non-essential goods and services, such as luxury air travel and general road use, but apply vertical equity criteria to basic access transport services and activities, such as facilities to accommodate people with disabilities, and other facilities and services that provide basic transportation to peop [...] Adjustments may be required to account for geographic differences (such as greater dependence on walking and transit in cities, and greater dependency on highways in suburbs and rural areas), differences in costs (such as higher costs of facilities and services in dense urban areas), and the extra costs of serving people with disabilities and other special needs. [...] Indicators can be selected to reflect various equity issues and perspectives, to have reasonable data and analysis requirements, and to be transferable between various situations.