Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality?
City planning in Australian cities has seen a gradual shift in approach, away from planning to facilitate mobility by car in the post-war period toward planning for land-use/public transport integration. By assessing the supply of public transport for city accessibility, a considerable variation wit...
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| description | City planning in Australian cities has seen a gradual shift in approach, away from planning to facilitate mobility by car in the post-war period toward planning for land-use/public transport integration. By assessing the supply of public transport for city accessibility, a considerable variation within each city can be seen. Of interest is the extent to which there is a relationship between the quality of public transport accessibility and the spatial distribution of socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage. This paper examines this issue by mapping spatial data on socioeconomic disadvantage and advantage against indicators of public transport accessibility. The findings show that Australian cities are characterized by a significant level of spatially manifested socioeconomic inequality exacerbated by transport disadvantage. It is argued that a coincidence of public transport infrastructure and service improvements as well as urban intensification and housing affordability policies are required to counteract these trends. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e8e06a3eb5b348bdbbbfba51bd671bbc2025-08-20T03:52:10ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Transport and Land Use1938-78492017-10-0110110.5198/jtlu.2017.1097280Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality?Jan Scheurer0Carey Curtis1Sam McLeod2Curtin University RMIT UniversityCurtin UniversityCurtin UniversityCity planning in Australian cities has seen a gradual shift in approach, away from planning to facilitate mobility by car in the post-war period toward planning for land-use/public transport integration. By assessing the supply of public transport for city accessibility, a considerable variation within each city can be seen. Of interest is the extent to which there is a relationship between the quality of public transport accessibility and the spatial distribution of socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage. This paper examines this issue by mapping spatial data on socioeconomic disadvantage and advantage against indicators of public transport accessibility. The findings show that Australian cities are characterized by a significant level of spatially manifested socioeconomic inequality exacerbated by transport disadvantage. It is argued that a coincidence of public transport infrastructure and service improvements as well as urban intensification and housing affordability policies are required to counteract these trends.https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1097Public transport accessibilitysocio-economic advantage and disadvantage |
| spellingShingle | Jan Scheurer Carey Curtis Sam McLeod Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality? Journal of Transport and Land Use Public transport accessibility socio-economic advantage and disadvantage |
| title | Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality? |
| title_full | Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality? |
| title_fullStr | Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality? |
| title_short | Spatial accessibility of public transport in Australian cities: Does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality? |
| title_sort | spatial accessibility of public transport in australian cities does it relieve or entrench social and economic inequality |
| topic | Public transport accessibility socio-economic advantage and disadvantage |
| url | https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1097 |
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