A proposed programme measuring how transport investment reaches — or bypasses — lower-income communities, and what data practices would make equity auditable.
Overview
Efficiency metrics reward serving where demand is already dense. This proposed programme asks a different question: who is left behind when we optimise for the average, and what would it take to make distributional impact a first-class metric in transport planning.
Planned Work Packages
- An access-equity index combining travel-time, cost, and reliability gaps.
- A retrospective audit of a decade of regional transport investment.
- Co-design workshops with affected communities to define what “fair” means locally.
Note
This project is at proposal stage. Partners and scope may change before funding is confirmed.
Collaborators on this project
DA
Dr. Ahmed Hassan
Cairo University
DA
Dr. Aoife Murphy
University College Dublin