Mobilizing Justice’s Theme 3 recently completed a survey of elected officials on transportation equity. In this blog post, University of Manitoba graduate student… Read More
Hello, my name is Hedieh Keshavarz and I work as a member of the National Survey group within the Mobilizing Justice Partnership. I am… Read More
Introduction: the potential of streets as socially resilient public spaces? During the years of the pandemic, many “normal” expectations of the way we lived were… Read More
Introduction There has been a boom in light rail transit (LRT) construction across North American cities in the past few decades. Such transit infrastructure investments… Read More
Elnaz Yousefzadeh Barri et. el. (2022) analyzed building an accurate model of travel behaviour based on individuals’ characteristics and built environment attributes. They mainly… Read More
I’m Anastasia Soukhov, a PhD student within the Mobilizing Justice Partnership’s Data Driven Equity Standards working group. The partner lead of this group is… Read More
Arriving late to work or a doctor’s visit because your bus ran late can be more than just a minor inconvenience. Research suggests that… Read More
What is fare capping? Fare capping is an approach to setting transit fares in which riders do not pay for additional rides above a… Read More
The perception that public transit is unsafe can lower travelers’ willingness to ride. It can also deter riders from traveling on transit at night,… Read More
Transport poverty occurs when inequitable transportation infrastructure and systems impede access to employment, services, educational opportunities, food, open space and leisure, and other destinations. People… Read More
Kate Hosford, PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University, spent the month of May in Montréal working with Dr. Lise Gauvin at the University of… Read More
There is conventional wisdom, as well as extensive academic research, that spending a long time commuting to work is undesirable. Unfortunately, some communities are… Read More