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Title:

Transport Equity in Bogotá: Nonmandatory Accessibility and Capabilities

Accession Number:

01658132

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The research sets out to examine the interaction between concepts such as equity, capabilities and accessibility. The authors' analysis builds on the concept of accessibility, focusing on the role of transport as enabler of opportunities for social interactions, healthcare and leisure, which contribute human development and wellbeing. The research aims at testing a methodological framework for accessibility developed and tested in the Latin American context, although it has not been previously applied to non-commuting travel. The authors' paper contributes to the existing evidence base of the relevance of non-commuting travel for policy assessment in a context of high manifested inequity, which can be scaled up and applied in other contexts with various levels of inequity. For this purpose, the research is developed in the context of the Bogotá Metropolitan Region, a paradigmatic case of transport development and policy in the Global South. The accessibility indices are analyzed from an equity perspective using recently developed equity metrics such as the Palma Ratio and Lorenz Curves for comparing non-work accessibility based on differences of income and socioeconomic positions. The authors' findings seek to contribute to present transport policy and practice, providing relevant insights to support actions that redistribute accessibility to opportunities other than the job market and questioning some of the paradigms of mainstream transport planning in cities like Bogotá.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD20 Standing Committee on Social and Economic Factors of Transportation.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-05016

Language:

English

Authors:

Oviedo, Daniel
Guzm�n, Luis A

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Non-work trips

Geographic Terms:

Bogota (Colombia); Latin America

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05016

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:15AM