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Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD)TRANSIT & CITIES CONFERENCE

UC BerkeleyMarch 20-21, 2014

Plenary Session 3: Inclusive Cities and Transit

Evelyn Blumenberg, Professor and Chair of Urban PlanningInstitute of Transportation StudiesUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

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Draw on the research—including some of my own—to ask the following question:

With respect to inclusion—particularly for low‐income families in the labor market—what can we reasonably expect from public transit...in the U.S?

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1. Public Transit

2. Public Transit in Relation to Automobiles

3. Where do we go from here?

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Residential Location Choice:  Low‐income families (without cars) tend to move to transit‐rich neighborhoods, where they can get around using public transit (Glaeser et al., 2008)

Travel Behavior:  Low‐income adults are 2‐ to 3‐times as likely to use public transit than all adults.

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Q:  Is public transit positively related to economic outcomes for low‐income adults?

A:  Likely, although the effect of transit on economic outcomes tends to be relatively small

In general, studies show a small positive effect of transit on employment outcomes Only among some population groups, particularly those without cars (Holzer et al., 2003; Kawabata, 2003; Ong and Houston, 2002; Sanchez, 1999)

Some studies do not find any employment effect of public transit (Sanchez et al., 2004) Could be due to the insufficient supply of public transit

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Good News Garage

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When low‐income families get lump‐sum payments of one sort or another, a high percentage purchase automobiles

Earned income tax credit

Individual development accounts (IDAs)

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A:  A growing body of research shows that access to a car is a strong predictor of employment outcomes

A:  In studies that include measures of automobile and transit access, automobiles are a much stronger predictor of employment than transit. 

PopulationGroup Research

Low Income Garasky et al. (2006)

Minorities (Black, Latino) Raphael and Stoll (2001); Raphael and Rice (2002)

Single mothers Baum (2009); Lichtenwalter et al. (2006)

Welfare recipients Cervero et al., (2002); Gurley and Bruce (2005); Lucas and Nicholson (2003); Ong (2002); Sandoval et al. (2011); Shen and Sanchez (2005)

Subsidized housing residents

Blumenberg and Pierce (in progress); Blumenberg and Pierce (in progress)

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Blumenberg and Ong, 2001

Public transit serves the mobility needs of the poor, particularly those without automobiles 

In most settings, cars still have advantages along a number dimensions—time and access, flexibility, convenience

Cars are associated with improved employment outcomes and have a greater employment effect than public transit

Yet cars come at a high cost—out of pocket expenditures, environmental externalities, congestion 

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We should not balance our carbon budget on the backs of low‐income families

We ought to pursue transportation policies that maximize transportation’s role in getting low‐income adults to work while, at the same time, working to minimize the negative externalities of automobiles

Public Transit Cars

• Protect and strengthen transit in dense urban neighborhoods where transit works well

• Automobile ownership programs and policies

• Buy• Upgrade

• Increase affordable housing adjacent to transit.

• Automobile access programs – taxi script, car share, on‐demand ridesharing (Uber/Lyft)

• Address transit equity issues:  farestructure, finance, and relative investments in bus/rail

• Ease the expenditure burden –subsidized maintenance, pay per mile auto insurance

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