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Title:

Poverty of the Carless

Accession Number:

01658133

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This paper documents the declining socioeconomic status of American households without vehicles. Carless households have lost income in absolute terms since the mid-20th century, and the income gap between households with and without cars is now larger than that between college graduates and non-graduates, and homeowners and renters. This is due in part to characteristics of the built environment; in most of New York City, where the built environment has not been changed to favor the car, there is almost no correlation between socioeconomic status and being vehicle-free. The results suggest the potential importance of helping vehicle-free households get cars, and the potential difficulty of using changes in the built environment to improve mobility for low-income people.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD50 Standing Committee on Environmental Justice in Transportation.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-05051

Language:

English

Authors:

King, David A
Manville, Michael
Smart, Michael J

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; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

New York (New York); United States

Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05051

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:15AM