Time poverty in transport research: A conceptual framework, metrics, profiles, and policies for achieving transport justice
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Keywords: transport poverty, time poverty, distributive justice, activity participation, transport and land use
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Ignacio Tiznado Aitken, University of Toronto Scarborough
Matthew Palm, University of Toronto Scarborough
Steven Farber, University of Toronto Scarborough
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Recent efforts have been developed to characterize and analyze the elements contributing to transport poverty. However, they focus mainly on mobility, accessibility, affordability, and externalities without explicitly approaching the causes and potential consequences of time-poverty issues.
Our work contributes to filling this gap by proposing a conceptual framework that bridges transport-related social exclusion and time use frameworks. Using the Canadian General Social Survey, we analyze the number of hours per week an individual has as free time by accounting for contracted (paid work), committed (unpaid work), and necessary time (physiological activities). We disaggregate contracted and committed time, explicitly differentiating the time spent performing everyday activities and the time needed to reach those activities.
Our analysis continues by discussing existing thresholds to define when an individual can be considered time-poor and ways to measure it, assessing distributive justice in a particular city. These thresholds are then used to perform a cluster analysis to categorize people experiencing transport-related time poverty. Overall, the results reveal profiles that are obliged to suppress participation in activities or spend too much time traveling to activities. In contrast, others "choose" to be time-poor and are in a better position to remedy this poverty by acquiring substitutes in the market or changing their transport and land use circumstances.
We discuss alternative definitions and applications of time poverty and the potential impact of transport and land use policies to alleviate time poverty on these different profiles, particularly the idea of the 15-minute city and the socio-spatial housing integration policies.
Time poverty in transport research: A conceptual framework, metrics, profiles, and policies for achieving transport justice
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Ignacio Tiznado Aitken
iatiznad@uc.cl
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