How just is transportation justice theory? The issues of paternalism and production

Vanoutrive, Thomas; Cooper, Erin

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2019.02.009

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“…On the contrary, going forward along this path is filled with complexities. The approach requires normative judgements on how accessibility should be distributed fairly, which can be criticized on many grounds including paternalism (Vanoutrive & Cooper, 2019), and the unsuitability of general normative views and thresholds that might not be applicable to particular contexts. The approach also requires dealing with methodological uncertainty and relying on rough estimations and imperfect measures when establishing environmental cost thresholds for accessibility.…”

Section: Dealing With Complexity and Uncertainty In Social-ecological...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring just accessibility within planetary boundaries

Willberg¹,

Tenkanen²,

Miller³

et al. 2023

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Our societies are wrestling with the problem of how to provide a good life for all without overconsuming environmental resources. Consequently, the search for approaches that simultaneously inspect the environmental and social goals of sustainability have become increasingly popular in many disciplines. In transport research, accessibility is a key tool to characterize linkages between people, transport, and land use. In the current paper, we propose a conceptual framework for measuring just accessibility within planetary boundaries. We first carry out a review of transport studies and discover a substantial body of literature on accessibility and social disadvantage, much vaster compared to the body of literature around environmental and ecological impacts of accessibility. We also show a gap in approaches that have integrated these two perspectives. Building on the review, we move forward by suggesting a conceptual framework for incorporating environmental and social sustainability goals in accessibility research. We conclude the paper by pointing to some key challenges and research avenues related to the framework, including (i) dealing with uncertainty and complexity in socio-ecological thresholds, (ii) developing ways to measure accessibility through other metrics than travel time, and (iii) integrating both quantitative and qualitative data.

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Section: Dealing With Complexity and Uncertainty In Social-ecological...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring just accessibility within planetary boundaries

Willberg¹,

Tenkanen²,

Miller³

et al. 2023

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“…Martens's theory has been criticised for the way in which he has applied Walzer's and Dworkin's theories, and for the issues that may arise in real-world situations (for example, see Vanoutrive and Cooper [47] for a discussion of the issues of paternalism and production). However, from the perspective of this paper, the main limitation with Martens's theory is that it is exclusively focused on access and the fairness of its distribution.…”

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Fairness in Transport Policy: A New Approach to Applying Distributive Justice Theories

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The transport system influences everyone’s wellbeing on a daily basis. These impacts are both positive and negative and are borne directly and indirectly at a range of spatial and temporal scales and across different groups in society. Furthermore, they are often distributed unfairly and the people who are least able to use transport networks frequently bear the greatest costs. People also have various transport needs and these needs change throughout their lives. Due to these complexities, there is no straightforward answer as to how we should provide transport fairly. Policies and actions to decarbonise the transport system are urgently needed, but their equity effects are also important. We give a brief overview of distributive justice and equity in transport literature. We then develop a conceptual framework of distributive justice and a set of four principles to guide the application of the framework to transport policy. We then apply these to recent transport policies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, a country that shares common features with most highly motorised countries. We apply the Capabilities Approach to transport policy in a novel way that conceptualises transport policy as a social conversion factor which influences people’s ability to convert resources and opportunities into the things (‘beings and doings’) that they have reason to value. The consideration of transport policy as a conversion factor, rather than focusing on a specific capability, emphasises the role of transport policy as a promoter of a wide range of capabilities and highlights the inequitable distribution of positive and negative effects on people’s health and wellbeing. It also illuminates issues of power structures and procedural fairness in transport policy that are otherwise not covered by distributive justice approaches. Taking a broader view of distributive justice theory in transport provides a clearer picture of the impacts of transport on wellbeing and provides theory-based guidance on the actions to improve transport justice that can be readily integrated into existing policy institutions.

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“…A promising direction in the research is to explore how various actors engage in the production and contestation of transport policy to better understand the politics of redistribution of benefits and responsibilities along with the tensions involved (Sosa López & Montero, 2018, p. 138). This means moving away from cost--benefit modeling towards need-based and social justice approaches (Martens, 2016;Vanoutrive & Cooper, 2019) with discursive components. There is also a parallel movement away from research aiming at formulating law-like generalizations toward locally grounded, context-specific problem-solving analyses (Henriksson et al, 2019, p. 627).…”

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Examining the Public Acceptability of Transportation Policy Through the Lens of Positioning Theory. A Case of the City Council Debate in Kraków, Poland

Bukowski

2022

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This paper applies positioning analysis to the case study of the extraordinary city council meeting in Kraków devoted to assessing controversial transport policy instruments. Positions are entitlements to perform actions in an episode. The paper explores how actual positioning patterns of pro-policy and anti-policy camps calmed the conflict between them. It is claimed that conflicted parties shared three narratives (storylines) that secured political and public acceptance of the policy, albeit in a non-obvious way.

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How just is transportation justice theory? The issues of paternalism and production

Cited by 23 publications

References 21 publications

Measuring just accessibility within planetary boundaries

Measuring just accessibility within planetary boundaries

Fairness in Transport Policy: A New Approach to Applying Distributive Justice Theories

Examining the Public Acceptability of Transportation Policy Through the Lens of Positioning Theory. A Case of the City Council Debate in Kraków, Poland

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