A transportation justice perspective on accessibility poverty in the urban periphery.

This project aims at a better understanding of accessibility poverty in the urban periphery in order to refine and redirect justice-inspired theories of transportation planning. In line with the literature on transportation and social exclusion, transportation justice theory sees transportation poverty and a lack of accessibility as the main problems to be addressed by transportation policy since people need a sufficient level of accessibility to participate in society. In this project, three urban peripheral cases will be analyzed to complement the literature with an internationally diverse view on insufficient accessibility and related concepts. Or in other words, these cases will improve the knowledge to deal with what can be considered the central question in justice-inspired transportation planning: how much accessibility do we owe each other? After an assessment of the main theory of transportation justice, three issues were identified that deserve further attention: paternalism, production and individual rights, and the research project is organized on the basis of these three issues and three selected cases.

Keywords:TRANSPORTATION, ACCESSIBILITY

Disciplines:Urban and regional design, development and planning