ChapterReview

Sustainable Transport – Chapter Review by Prof. Dr. Karst Geurs
Student: Rafael Ferrao Moura Cruz – 1563696
Chapter 3 – Accessibility, equity and transport

Equity and accessibly are the words which can define this third chapter. Even though the whole book has a focus in the sustainable side of transport, in this session the author chose for a moment to put this matter aside in order to speak with more freedom about the aspects mentioned above.
Starting with equity, as pointed in the text, it can be seen from several perspectives, making sometimes its meaning contradictory. As an example, comparing the types of equity “Return to source” to the “Cost imposed” it is easy to see that while the first one has a liberal way of distributing the income share of the money between metropolises proportionally to the tax revenue of each state, the second one has a social base of thinking, since it promotes less taxes for the ones which are less benefited, endorsing social inclusion.
Interchanging meanings with equity, its accessibility. From a point of view related to less fortunate people, it can be seen as the inclusion into environment activities which they usually would not be able to, without a reasonable ease, making it one of the major players in the social exclusion. By increasing transport accessibility (Feitelson, 2002), it gives the opportunity of someone born in a lower-class to have contact with a place which can be important for its personal growth. Furthermore in this topic, it’s seen a more well stablished categories of accessibility exclusion, and the groups of people who are more susceptive to this inaccessibility.
As stated in the second topic, transport plays a major role in the social inclusion.
Transport exclusion can be seen as the fuse for a whole other problems, as financial segregation for those who aren’t able to go to work, or physical to handicap people who aren’t able to move long distances without the help of proper equipment. This problem
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