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Title:

Environmental Justice Analysis: Challenges for Metropolitan Transportation Planning

Accession Number:

01046159

Language:

English

Abstract:

This research focuses on three major challenges of incorporating environmental justice into metropolitan transportation planning. The data needed are compared with the data currently available on the spatial distributions of race and income, the spatial distributions of trip ends, trip tables, network performance, and cost estimates of improvements. Several conflicting definitions of equity are offered, as are applications for each within the context of environmental justice. The importance of choosing a correct unit of analysis is discussed, with particular emphasis on how the geographic unit of analysis is a poor proxy for the group unit, which is theoretically required, as the analysis’s purpose is to compare performance measures across groups. The primary goal of this paper is to explore challenging topics such as these raising questions and concerns. The answers to the questions raised will differ depending on each implementing agency’s objectives and resources.

TRIS Files:

HRIS, UMTRIS

Media Type:

Print

Pagination:

pp 8-12

Authors:

Duthie, Jennifer

Phone: 512-475-8744
jduthie@mail.utexas.edu
University of Texas, Austin

Cervenka, Ken

Phone: 817-608-2397
kcervenka@nctcog.org
North Central Texas Council of Governments

Waller, S Travis

Phone: 517-471-4539
Fax: 512-471-8744
stw@mail.utexas.edu
University of Texas, Austin

Monograph Accession #:

01084276

Publication Date:

2007

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2013more icon
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 USA
Order URL: http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8631

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309104395

ISBN:

9780309104395

Features:

References (27)

Index Terms:

Environmental justice; Equity (Justice); Income; Metropolitan areas; Performance measurement; Race; Spatial distribution patterns; Transportation planning; Trip tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Last Modified:

Jan 22 2008 11:23AM

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