Distributional Impacts

Apr 30 2007

Private Transport Creates Spatial Limits to Mobility

How Does Private Transport Create Spatial Limits to Mobility?

Yellow Trolley, Los Angeles Among those with access to urban transportation, inequities appear in time spent in work-related travel. Although shifts in transportation technology towards private transportation and policies supporting that trend promised the universal destruction of the barriers of space through decreased travel time, they created instead land-use patterns that imposed new spatial limits to mobility... read more »

Apr 02 2007

Unequal Transportation Services Promote Distance Barriers

How do Unequal Transportation Services Promote Distance Barriers?

Southern Pacific Railroad, California With the increased decentralization of workplace locations and the concentration of low-income, underemployed residents in the inner city, a mismatch developed between the location of the urban poor and that of their employment opportunities (Kain, 1968; cited in Yago, 1983)... read more »

Mar 06 2007

Access to Transportation - Distributional Impacts of Physical Mobility On Social Mobility

How do the Distributional Impacts of Physical Mobility On Social Mobility Affect Access to Transportation?

San Bernardino Train Station, California Advances in transportation technology make more information, goods, services, educational and employment opportunities, land, recreation, and so forth available to those with access to transportation (Yago, 1983). The unequal distribution of that access on the basis of race, sex, income, and class has been the focus of a growing body of transportation research... read more »