Abstract

Problem, research strategy, and findings

Transportation equity research addresses questions of participation and planning process or the distribution of transportation’s benefits and burdens. This work largely elides issues related to youth and student travel. Existing work on school trip mode choice does not engage deeply with the equity implications of its findings. Education equity researchers identify the abstract notion of choice as equity enhancing but do not engage with the realities of disparate transportation resources and infrastructure. In this review essay, we articulate the contours of transportation equity, youth travel, and school choice research. We use emerging perspectives on “mobility justice” to frame the issues and provide vocabulary that can help bring education and transportation together in planners’ everyday work.

Takeaway for practice

A mobility justice framework encourages critical thought and action to address the root causes of inequities. Our conclusions make three contributions to research and practice: 1) challenging school district leaders to think about choice systems designed for access to schools, not just access to information about available options; 2) clarifying the broader implications of school choice by refusing to look away from the racial implications of forecasts; and 3) elucidating the need for a regional perspective.

中文翻译：

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走向流动正义

摘要

问题，研究策略和发现

运输公平研究解决了参与和计划过程或运输收益和负担分配的问题。这项工作在很大程度上消除了与青年和学生旅行有关的问题。现有的关于学校出行方式选择的工作并没有与其发现的公平含义紧密地联系在一起。教育公平研究人员将选择的抽象概念视为提高公平的选择，但并未参与各种交通资源和基础设施的现实。在这篇评论文章中，我们阐述了交通公平，青年旅行和学校选择研究的轮廓。我们使用关于“交通正义”的新兴观点来构架问题并提供词汇，以帮助将教育和交通运输纳入规划人员的日常工作中。

外卖练习

流动性司法框架鼓励采取批判性思维和行动来解决造成不平等现象的根本原因。我们的结论对研究和实践做出了三点贡献：1）挑战学区领导者思考为进入学校而设计的选择系统，而不仅仅是获得有关可用选择的信息；2）通过拒绝预测的种族影响来澄清学校选择的更广泛含义；3）阐明需要区域观点。