What if Cities Combined Car-Based Solutions with Transit to Improve Access to Opportunity?

This essay is part of a five-part series that explores how city leaders can promote local economies that are inclusive of all their residents. The framing brief, “Open Cities: From Economic Exclusion to Urban Inclusion,” defines economic exclusion and discusses city-level trends across high-income countries (Greene et al. 2016). The four “What if?” essays suggest bold and innovative solutions, and they are intended to spark debate on how cities might harness new technologies, rising momentum, and new approaches to governance in order to overcome economic exclusion. In this essay the authors envision regional Coalitions for Equitable Transportation Access (CETAs) that would unite stakeholders to provide low-income families better access to opportunity through a mix of transportation strategies, including implementing various approaches to auto access to help individuals and families achieve better outcomes, sustaining regional transit systems, growing the economy, and lowering emissions.

• Record URL:
  • https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/81571/2000818-What-if-Cities-Combined-Car-Based-Solutions-with-Transit-to-Improve-Access-to-Opportunity.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © June 2016. Urban Institute.
• Corporate Authors:

  Urban Institute

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• Authors:
  • Pendall, Rolf
  • Blumenberg, Evelyn
  • Dawkins, Casey
• Publication Date: 2016-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 10p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Automobiles; Cities; Coalitions; Equity; Low income groups; Public transit; Stakeholders; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01668825
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 10 2018 9:21AM