Social Justice in Urban Public Transportation: A User-Centric Analysis of Fares in Portoviejo, Ecuador
Ignacio Loor Colamarco,
Lucía Rivadeneira Barreiro
Abstract:Objective: To examine the perceptions of socially just fares among urban public bus users in Portoviejo and to assess the potential impacts of fare increases on the most vulnerable populations and the subsequent changes in their mobility behavior.
Method: To unpack the multiple facets that shape the notion of justice, we conducted a two-stage clustered observational study using a survey administered to a sample of urban bus users. The data collected were scrutinized using three analytical methods: explorator… Show more
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