Transportation Justice 12: Railways, their neighbours, planners, and crew
Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: 420B, Level 4, Huntington Place
Type: Paper
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Sponsor Group(s):
Transportation Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Anastasia Soukhov McMaster University
Julie Cidell University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Joshua Davidson Oberlin College
Steven Farber University of Toronto - Scarborough
Hannah King University of California - Los Angeles - Dept of Urban Planning
Madeline Wander University of California - Los Angeles - Dept of Urban Planning
Chair(s):
Anastasia Soukhov, McMaster University
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Description:
Transportation justice is an important and growing component of urban social and spatial equity and sustainable development. The crises associated with global economic recessions, climate change, and racial injustice have only intensified the urgency to consider transportation as a key input in building an actionable "right to the city" for all.
Previous research has developed both a robust vocabulary through which to discuss transportation in light of diverse theories of justice, and a range of quantitative and qualitative metrics by which to evaluate transportation equity initiatives. The foundations set by this body of research and the pressing examples of urgent need in the contemporary transportation environment together suggest new, creative, and rigorous engagements by asking what transportation equity and justice mean today and how a more just distribution of transportation resources and equitable participation within transportation planning processes can be achieved.
This session explores these topics as part of the Transportation Justice series.
NOTE: The organizers would like to acknowledge the contributions of Hannah King, a founding member of the Transportation Justice session organizing team. Since the 2021 Annual Meeting, she has collaborated in organizing these sessions each year, including this year’s program. Sadly, Hannah passed away on Nov. 26, 2024. At the start of the first session in this series, we shared a few words about Hannah and observed a moment of silence.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Libby Porter, RMIT University |
Tracking displacement: the role of the railways in the transformation of Noongar Country, Western Australia |
Michael Cattell, Pennsylvania State University |
Accessibility of Amtrak's Long Distance Network |
Shrobona Karkun-Sen, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse |
Entanglements of Urbanization with Mobility: Reading Development of the Past and Present in Delhi's Expanding Footprint |
Joseph Lane, University of Minnesota - Duluth |
A railroading lifestyle: An ethnographic exploration of perceptions and personal experiences of Amtrak crew members |
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Transportation Justice 12: Railways, their neighbours, planners, and crew
Description
Type: Paper
Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: 420B, Level 4, Huntington Place
Contact the Primary Organizer
Anastasia Soukhov McMaster University
soukhoa@mcmaster.ca
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