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Social Equity In Transit Service: Toward Social And Environmental Justice In Transportation, Torrey Lyons
Social Equity In Transit Service: Toward Social And Environmental Justice In Transportation, Torrey Lyons
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This dissertation explores social equity as it applies to public transportation. Transit has long been considered a tool to alleviate inequity by limiting the effects of spatial mismatch and providing access to opportunity to disadvantaged populations. This theory, however, has not been adequately proven empirically. The first chapter of this dissertation tests the theory that spatial mismatch is moderated by quality transit service. We do this by taking a cross section of the largest urban areas in the United States and applying structural equation modeling to identify relationships between exogenous and endogenous factors. We find that higher quality transit service …