The equity impacts of bus rapid transit: A review of the evidence and implications for sustainable transport
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...Over the past decade, there has been growing concern over the equity impacts of public transport investments (Ciommo & Shiftan, 2017; Lucas, 2012), particularly of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects, which are increasingly being adopted worldwide (Delmelle & Casas, 2012; Venter et al., 2017)....
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...Urban planners have used these assessments when planning for issues related to climate change, regional land-use planning, transportation, and road construction [85,106,107]....
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...Case studies have shown that equity impact assessments can change decisions, enhance plan content, and improve plan implementation [106,110]....
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...…in the past few decades (for recent reviews, see for instance El-Geneidy & Levinson, 2006; Geurs & Van Wee, 2004), consistent with an acknowledgement that the key benefit of transport is not simply mobility but the accessibility to opportunities it bestows (Handy & Niemeier, 1997; Zegras, 2011)....
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...Accessibility measurement has also been central to the understanding of social exclusion and the design of plans and interventions to combat transport-based exclusion (Curl, Nelson, & Anable, 2011; Farrington, 2007; Lucas, 2012)....
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...…transport routes or interchanges (e.g. Jaramillo et al., 2012; Teunissen, Sarmiento, Zuidgeest, & Brussel, 2015), or make the link through to the number of opportunities (jobs, medical services, food stores) reachable via the transport system (e.g. Levinson, 1998; Lucas et al., 2008; Venter, 2016)....
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...Paratransit services often deliver large benefits to poor populations, by providing service coverage in areas lacking formal transit, jobs for unskilled workers, and a high degree of customer responsiveness (Cervero & Golub, 2007)....
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...Paratransit services are significant sources of employment of low-skilled workers (Cervero & Golub, 2007); their restructuring or replacement might reduce employment in the sector....
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