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Title: Varieties of Transportation Justice: US Transportation Equity Policy and the Civil Rights Movement
Accession Number: 01155497
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Transportation policy has long been concerned with achieving direct outcomes such as maximum mobility, reduced unit travel times and increased access, and indirect outcomes such as regional economic development. More recently a distinct concern has arisen regarding equity and justice in transportation, in a very broad sense a concern about whether all transport system users have equal access and fair burden and benefit distributions. The equity policy framework in the US rests upon and is closely bound up with the post Civil War struggle for civil rights. This article describes what American conceptions of civil rights have come to mean in US policy and legal spheres; discusses the extent to which transportation is seen as a civil right; discusses what the limits of those rights are and how those definitions have changed over time; and suggests some current issues for US policymakers that a civil rights approach to transportation equity must consider going forward.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01147878
Report/Paper Numbers: 10-0605
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Gordon, Cameron ElliottPagination: 15p
Publication Date: 2010
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: DVD
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-0605
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 25 2010 10:18AM
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