Paper published: The outside edge of the doughnut: sustainable mobility and accessibility inequalities in Dutch transport policy Author links open overlay panel

We are happy to share that one of the papers from Marco van Burgsteden has just been published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives!

Transport planning is increasingly expected to pursue Community Wellbeing (CWB) objectives—not only keeping the mobility system efficient, but also shaping how benefits and burdens (e.g., access to activities, safety risks, health impacts, and environmental quality) are distributed across groups. Yet practitioners lack workable diagnostics that translate normative debates on minimum sufficiency and upper limits into policy directions that can be used in day-to-day appraisal and package design. This paper extends the Capability Approach (CA)-based evaluative framework for CWB-oriented transport policy by operationalising a joint “floor-and-ceiling” logic: sufficiency thresholds to prevent accessibility deprivation (inner edge) and limitarian ceilings to prevent unacceptable collective harms from mobility behaviour (outer edge).

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