Combining resources and conversion factors

Authors

  • Mohammad Azmoodeh Department of Transportation & Highway, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4868-4627
  • Farshidreza Haghighi Department of Transportation & Highway, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran
  • Hamid Motieyan Department of Surveying and Architectural Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3733-7147

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/8906

Keywords:

Social Equity, Distributive Justice, Capability Approach, Transport Policy, Urban Planning

Abstract

A growing body of recent studies involves the social effects of distributive justice in the field of transportation, which mostly can be traced back to the studies of spatial mismatches, income, or gender inequality. So, this paper seeks to address challenges related to the conceptualization of capability and proposes a new aggregated framework to draw the connection between Resources, Conversion Factors, and Capabilities as the key terms of the Capability Approach. Consequently, by classifying the resources and conversion factors to "individual characteristics," "transportation options," and "urban living environment" dimensions, the model would provide an index that expresses the level of capabilities called the Capability Index (CI). The results of scenarios evaluated in this paper demonstrate that the significant difference in the capabilities is mainly affected by car ownership and income variables with 2.214 and 0.223 Cohen's d effect size, respectively. Also, disability in the young age group causes a more significant reduction in their capability index than their old counterparts. The model demonstrates the need to highlight the capability notion and the need for improving new methods to underscore human characteristics as the focal point in urban policy-making.

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Author Biographies

Mohammad Azmoodeh, Department of Transportation & Highway, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

He has received his BSc in Civil Engineering from Yasuj University, and his MSc degree in Highway and Transportation Engineering at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in 2017. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Transportation and Highway Engineering at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology. His research interests center around urban transportation planning, transport-related social exclusion with a focus on the Capability Approach and accessibility-based planning.

Farshidreza Haghighi, Department of Transportation & Highway, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

He has received his BSc degree in Civil Engineering from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (NIT) in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (NIT). His research interests lie in the general areas of traffic safety and urban transportation planning.

Hamid Motieyan, Department of Surveying and Architectural Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

He has received his BSc degree in Surveying and Geomatics Engineering from Zanjan University in 2009 and his MSc and Ph.D. degree in Geospatial Information System (GIS) from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 2012 and 2018 respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (NIT). His research interests lie in the general areas of urban planning, spatial analyses, Computational Intelligence, Transit-Oriented Development, and Spatial Decision Support systems.

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Published

2022-08-31

How to Cite

Azmoodeh, M., Haghighi, F., & Motieyan, H. (2022). Combining resources and conversion factors. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 15(2), 227–248. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/8906

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices

Section

LUME (Land Use, Mobility and Environment)

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