Readings on Transit, Justice and Equity
Boarnet, M. G., Giuliano, G., Hou, Y., & Shin, E. J. (2017). First/last mile transit access as an equity planning issue. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 103, 296–310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2017.06.011
Dugger, C. W. (2010, February 21). A Bus System Reopens Rifts in South Africa. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/world/africa/22bus.html
Garrett, M., & Taylor, B. (1999). Reconsidering Social Equity in Public Transit. Berkeley Planning Journal, 13(1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mc9t108
Giuliano, G. (2011). Transportation Policy: Public Transit, Settlement Patterns, and Equity in the United States. In N. Brooks, K. Donaghy, & G.-J. Knapp (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195380620.013.0026
Glaeser, E. L., Kahn, M. E., & Rappaport, J. (2008). Why Do the Poor Live in Cities? The Role of Public Transportation. Journal of Urban Economics, 63(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2006.12.004
Grengs, J. (2005). The abandoned social goals of public transit in the neoliberal city of the USA. City, 9(1), 51–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604810500050161
Grengs, J. (2002). Community-Based Planning as a Source of Political Change: The Transit Equity Movement of Los Angeles’ Bus Riders Union. Journal of the American Planning Association, 68(2), 165–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944360208976263
Karner, A., & Golub, A. (2015). Comparison of Two Common Approaches to Public Transit Service Equity Evaluation. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2531, 170–179. https://doi.org/10.3141/2531-20
Karner, A., & Duckworth, R. (2019). ‘Pray for transit’: Seeking transportation justice in metropolitan Atlanta. Urban Studies, 56(9), 1882–1900. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018779756
Loh, P. (2007). T Riders’ Union: A Tale of Two Campaigns in Boston. Reimagine! https://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/325
Lopez, R. (2005). Racial Segregation and Transportation Justice in an Urban Community: The Case of the Boston T Riders Union. Boston University School of Public Health. http://russlopez.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Boston_T_Riders_Union_Case_Study.37140131.doc
Lowe, K. (2014). Bypassing Equity? Transit Investment and Regional Transportation Planning. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 34(1), 30–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X13519474
Lowe, K., & Grengs, J. (2018). Private Donations for Public Transit: The Equity Implications of Detroit’s Public–Private Streetcar. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X18761237. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18761237
Maciag, M. (2014, February 25). Public Transportation’s Demographic Divide. Governing. https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-public-transportation-riders-demographic-divide-for-cities.html
Mann, E. (2004). Los Angeles Bus Riders Derail the MTA. In R. D. Bullard, G. S. Johnson, & A. O. Torres (Eds.), Highway Robbery (Cambridge, MA; pp. 33–48). South End Press.
Wexler, H., & Demetrakas, J. (1999). Bus Riders Union. https://mediaburn.org/video/bus-riders-union/
Peñalosa, E. (2013, September). Why buses represent democracy in action. TEDCity 2.0. https://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represent_democracy_in_action (BIPOC author)
Sanchez, T. W. (2008). Poverty, Policy, and Public Transportation. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 42(5), 833–841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2008.01.011
Sanchez, T. W., Shen, Q., & Peng, Z.-R. (2004). Transit Mobility, Jobs Access and Low-income Labour Participation in US Metropolitan Areas. Urban Studies, 41(7), 1313–1331. https://doi.org/10.1080/0042098042000214815
Taylor, B. D., & Morris, E. A. (2015). Public transportation objectives and rider demographics: Are transit’s priorities poor public policy? Transportation, 42(2), 347–367. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-014-9547-0
Thomas, J. (2017). Buses, But Not Spaces For All: Histories of Mass Resistance & Student Power on Public Transportation in Mexico & The United States. Scripps Senior Theses. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1068
Wei, R., Liu, X., Mu, Y., Wang, L., Golub, A., & Farber, S. (2017). Evaluating public transit services for operational efficiency and access equity. Journal of Transport Geography, 65, 70–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.10.010 (BIPOC author)
Yan, J. (2013). Rousing the Sleeping Giant: Administrative Enforcement of Title VI and New Routes to Equity in Transit Planning. California Law Review, 101(4), 1131. https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38M51J (BIPOC author)