EQUITY IN URBAN TRANSPORTATION

The paper examines the various aspects of the equity issue in urban transportation, an issue which has become increasingly controversial in recent years. A number of data sets are analyzed to determine the extent to which poor, elderly, or handicapped persons suffer from substandard levels of mobility. The authors then assess the cost-effectiveness and political feasibility of a range of alternative policy measures designed to increase the mobility of these disadvantaged groups.

• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Center for Transportation Studies, Room 1121
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139

  Department of Transportation

  Office of University Research, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Altshuler, A
  • Womack, J
  • Pucher, J
• Publication Date: 1979-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 86 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Aged; Cost effectiveness; Feasibility analysis; Low income groups; Mobility; Persons with disabilities; Policy; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Transportation policy; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Disadvantaged persons
• Subject Areas: Highways; Policy; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00313249
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/RSPA/DPB-5-79/9
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-50240
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM