Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia
This paper explores the equity distribution of public transport for three separate disadvantaged cohorts including elderly residents, low-income households and no-car households for Perth, Western Australia. It also undertakes a city-wide equity analysis of Perth and compares this with a published a...
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| author | Ricciardi, A. Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia) Currie, G. |
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| description | This paper explores the equity distribution of public transport for three separate disadvantaged cohorts including elderly residents, low-income households and no-car households for Perth, Western Australia. It also undertakes a city-wide equity analysis of Perth and compares this with a published analysis for Melbourne. Overall the public transport distribution of the three socially disadvantaged groups was identified to be less equitable when compared to the population as a whole. The elderly had the most inequitable distribution of population relative to other cohorts. Perth's population exhibits a 0.52 Gini coefficient suggesting a relatively unequal spatial distribution of services to the population. However, this is much better than Melbourne (at 0.68). Results imply that 70% of Perth's population have only 33% of services supplied, whilst in Melbourne this figure was 19%. Policy implications and areas for future research in this field were identified. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-213792017-09-13T15:41:02Z Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia Ricciardi, A. Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia) Currie, G. This paper explores the equity distribution of public transport for three separate disadvantaged cohorts including elderly residents, low-income households and no-car households for Perth, Western Australia. It also undertakes a city-wide equity analysis of Perth and compares this with a published analysis for Melbourne. Overall the public transport distribution of the three socially disadvantaged groups was identified to be less equitable when compared to the population as a whole. The elderly had the most inequitable distribution of population relative to other cohorts. Perth's population exhibits a 0.52 Gini coefficient suggesting a relatively unequal spatial distribution of services to the population. However, this is much better than Melbourne (at 0.68). Results imply that 70% of Perth's population have only 33% of services supplied, whilst in Melbourne this figure was 19%. Policy implications and areas for future research in this field were identified. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21379 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.01.011 Elsevier Ltd restricted |
| spellingShingle | Ricciardi, A. Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia) Currie, G. Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia |
| title | Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia |
| title_full | Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia |
| title_fullStr | Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia |
| title_short | Exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: A case study in Perth, Australia |
| title_sort | exploring public transport equity between separate disadvantaged cohorts: a case study in perth, australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21379 |