Transport Justice Martens Karel Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel & Radboud University the Netherlands
Transport Justice Martens Karel Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel & Radboud University the Netherlands Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on…
Specifikacia Transport Justice Martens Karel Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel & Radboud University the Netherlands
Transport Justice Martens Karel Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel & Radboud University the Netherlands
Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice. The growing body of academic evidence on the resulting disparities in mobility and accessibility, have been paralleled by increasingly vocal calls for policy changes to address the inequities that have developed over time. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the focus of transportation planning and policy has been on the performance of the transport system and ways to improve it, without much attention being paid to the persons actually using - or failing to use - that transport system.There are far-reaching consequences of this approach, with some enjoying the fruits of the improvements in the transport system, while others have experienced a substantial deterioration in their situation.
Drawing on philosophies of social