THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM IS A PROBLEM IN SOCIAL EQUITY

The author views the transportation problem as a problem in social equity. He indicates that the pluralistic nation of specialist has prospered despite extreme geographic separation because transportation and communications technologies have permitted rapid and intimate contact across geography. But the rise of the auto-phone-suburb system, which has so enriched the lives of middle-majority persons, has been relatively impoverishing for persons who are poor and also members of racial minorities. Solving "our most untractable transportation problem," he states, "calls for providing random acces capabilites for the mobility disadvantage". In this sense, the transportation problem is no longer a problem in civil engineering, but it has become instead one of the most difficult problems is social equity. He concludes". If we are to find a way out, it books as though it will be making automobiles and their equivalents available to everyone".

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Published in Urban Transportation Perspectives and Prospects.
• Corporate Authors:

  Newcastle University, Australia

  Department of Community Programmes
  Newcastle, New South Wales 2308,   Australia 

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
  Westport, CT  United States  06880-0055
• Authors:
  • Webber, M M
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 59-62
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Newcastle University, Australia
  • Publisher: Newcastle University, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Minorities; Mobility; Quality of life; Social values; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00399695
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 987
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1985 12:00AM