From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State

Transportation policies, plans, and projects all flow through state institutions because of the substantial cost of infrastructure and the need to assess transportation system performance, including equity. But environmental justice scholarship interrogates the state’s role in perpetuating injustice. Most research and planning practice related to transportation equity has relied upon state-sponsored analytical methods. Transportation planners and scholars can benefit from critical assessments of these approaches. The authors propose a shift in focus from transportation equity to transportation justice that is more closely aligned with models of social change promulgated in the environmental justice literature and related movements.

• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67311
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Note: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Planning Literature. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. The version of record is available here: https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412220927691 © 2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  School of Architecture
  Austin, TX  United States  78712-1075

  University of California, Davis

  Department of Human Ecology
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Sustainable Systems Research, LLC

  ,    

  McGill University

  Department of Geography, 815 Sherbrooke Street West
  Montreal, Quebec  Canada  H3A 2K6

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Karner, Alex
  • London, Jonathan
  • Rowangould, Dana
  • Manaugh, Kevin
• Publication Date: 2020-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Manuscript
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 31p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental justice; Equity; Social change; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01882644
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: May 23 2023 9:27AM