Transport Equity in Bogotá: Nonmandatory Accessibility and Capabilities

The research sets out to examine the interaction between concepts such as equity, capabilities and accessibility. The authors' analysis builds on the concept of accessibility, focusing on the role of transport as enabler of opportunities for social interactions, healthcare and leisure, which contribute human development and wellbeing. The research aims at testing a methodological framework for accessibility developed and tested in the Latin American context, although it has not been previously applied to non-commuting travel. The authors' paper contributes to the existing evidence base of the relevance of non-commuting travel for policy assessment in a context of high manifested inequity, which can be scaled up and applied in other contexts with various levels of inequity. For this purpose, the research is developed in the context of the Bogotá Metropolitan Region, a paradigmatic case of transport development and policy in the Global South. The accessibility indices are analyzed from an equity perspective using recently developed equity metrics such as the Palma Ratio and Lorenz Curves for comparing non-work accessibility based on differences of income and socioeconomic positions. The authors' findings seek to contribute to present transport policy and practice, providing relevant insights to support actions that redistribute accessibility to opportunities other than the job market and questioning some of the paradigms of mainstream transport planning in cities like Bogotá.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD20 Standing Committee on Social and Economic Factors of Transportation.
• Authors:
  • Oviedo, Daniel
  • Guzm�n, Luis A
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
• Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Equity; Income; Recreational trips; Shopping trips; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation policy
• Uncontrolled Terms: Non-work trips
• Geographic Terms: Bogota (Colombia); Latin America
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01658132
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-05016
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 26 2018 2:16PM