Everything is Public Health

Transportation is Public Health - Transit Apartheid

March 21, 2024 MJ and Cass Season 4 Episode 19
Everything is Public Health
Transportation is Public Health - Transit Apartheid
Show Notes

What is a transit apartheid and why is that term better than transit desert?

Special Guest: Dr. Erica Twardzik

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References:
Dr. Diane Allen text:  https://www.routledge.com/Lost-in-the-Transit-Desert-Race-Transit-Access-and-Suburban-Form/Jones-Allen/p/book/9780367207823
Food apartheid:  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/15/food-apartheid-food-deserts-racism-inequality-america-karen-washington-interview
Food apartheid:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622005275
It’s Transportation for All of Us (ITS4US): https://its.dot.gov/its4us/htm/overview.htm
Dr. Chandra Ford and colleagues text: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/book/10.2105/9780875533049
Public Transit Disability Dashboard: https://disabilityhealth.jhu.edu/transitdashboard/
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol34_2007/summer2007/hr_summer07_bujoto/

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