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Bridging Transport Equity: A real-life lab

TEA COST guidelines - TU 1209

7‐9 March 2017

Área Metropolitana de Barcelona, Calle n. 62 de la Zona Franca

Training school: sala de plens, edificio A, 7th Floor

Final conference: sala d' actes, edificio A, 7th Floor

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Bridging Transport Equity: A real-life lab on TEA COST guidelines - TU 1209

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Transport Equity Analysis: assessment and integration of equity criteria in transportation planning (TEA). TU 1209

Objectives

Understanding the equity implications of transport policies and investments is becoming increasingly important, as underscored by social movements around the world. This poses a major challenge in the assessment and appraisal of transport projects and policies, in which equity issues are currently hardly addressed. In fact, current evaluation methods in transport do not account for equity issues, and this topic is not dealt with in EU guidebooks for project evaluation. This Action proposal contributes to the body of research by bringing together new approaches to incorporate equity consideration in transport project evaluation and decision making. The approaches consist of the measurement of accessibility with the literature on social justice, travel behaviour models and socio-economic impacts analysis in line with mainstream welfare economics. The three main objectives of this Action proposal are:1) to establish a methodology to explore the links between transport accessibility and distributional factors;2) to develop new transport evaluation criteria accounting for accessibility in the social welfare function;3) to help embed equity assessment into future transport policies and investments. 21 EU and associated countries are part of TEA Cost action.

https://www.teacost.eu/


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Organisers

Grant Holder: Centre for Innovation in Transport (CENIT)

CENIT, Centre for Innovation in Transport, is a research centre created in 2001 as a consortium between the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia) and Barcelona Tech (UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). Its main aim is to generate knowledge on transportation and related domains and to transfer it to society. CENIT was the first research centre on transportation to be created in Spain and its team is made up of multidisciplinary researchers and a five‐person supporting team. CENIT research lines and activities are wide: travel behavioural models, urban mobility and transportation; safety, security and reliability; ITS; financing and environment and energy. Recently it has enlarged its research lines including sustainable mobility, travel behaviour, social needs, and equity with Dr. Floridea Di Ciommo, Responsible for research area on Sustainable mobility and Travel Behaviour. CENIT has obtained 92 research contracts, 14 of which have been international research projects.

http://www.cenit.es/

European Cooperation in Science and Technology- COST

COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe. Its mission is to enable breakthrough scientific developments leading to new concepts and products. It thereby contributes to strengthening Europe’s research and innovation capacities. It is a unique means for them to jointly develop their own ideas and new initiatives across all fields in science and technology, including social sciences and humanities, through pan-European networking of nationally funded research activities. It anticipates and complements the activities of the EU Framework Programmes, constituting a “bridge” towards the scientific communities of COST Inclusiveness Target Countries.

http://www.cost.eu/

Host Institution: The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB)

The AMB is the public administration of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, which occupies 636 km² compose from 36 municipalities with more than 3.2 million inhabitants. AMB powers included cohesion and territorial balance, housing, transports and mobility, water cycle, waste and environment, developing the Metropolitan Urban Master Plan and the Metropolitan Urban Mobility Plan. This include territorial planning, urban planning and infrastructures of metropolitan interest. AMB is responsible for transport and mobility in the Metropolitan region, and has experience in collective urban public transport of passengers on the surface, provision of metro and underground public transport of passengers, regulation of the taxi service, approval of the Urban Mobility Metropolitan Plan, definition of the basic metropolitan road network and traffic management, management of passenger transportation with tourist purposes and management of the Barcelona ring roads. The AMB will contribute to the dissemination of the TEA Cost results to a wider audience (MedCities, UITP, Metropolis and UCLG).

http://www.amb.cat/s/home.html


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Programme

Training School on: Bridging Transport Equity: A real-life lab

March 7-8, 2017, Barcelona, Spain

March 7 Day 1 Evaluation, Methods and measurement, and people

March 8 day 2

Introduction to TEA Training school Floridea Di Ciommo , Chair, TEA Cost Action, Francesc Magrinyà, AMB represent (9.00-9.30)

Tools for Equity Measurement: an open debate. Elisabete Arsenio, Pierluigi Coppola, Bat-hen Nahmias–Biran, and Anders Wretstrand (9:00-10:00) Trainees work (10.00-10.30, with TEA corner1*)

Introduction of Trainees and trainers Chaired by Karel Martens (9.30-9.50)

Assessment framework: Conservative, Moderate, and progressive paradigm. Floridea Di Ciommo (9.50-10:10) Vulnerable population and type of costs or benefits addressed: Rebecca Shliselberg (10.10-10.30)

TEA break (10:30-11:00)

Dimensions of equity: horizontal and vertical equity, equality, sufficiency, priority. Karel Martens (11.00-11.20) Methodologies: quantitative and qualitative. Innovative measurement and methods for equity appraisals, including new data sources. Yoram Shiftan (11:20-11:40)

Trainees work (11.00-13.30)

Equity and Transport approaches to develop 1) Accessibility poverty index

Jeroen Bastianssen and Karel Martens 2) Environmental Justice through GIS tools Karel Martens

and Yoav Lerman 3) Needs-based vs utilitarianism approach Floridea Di

Ciommo 4) Vulnerable population groups: results for older people in

Sweden: Anders Wretstrand 5) Multicriteria Mass-Transit in Tel Aviv, Nir Sharaby and

Yoram Shiftan 6) An example of low-medium income working women in

Mexico City: How reshape transport policy? Lucia Mejia-Dorantes (11.40-13.40)

Outside Filming for Equity University_ You Tube platform: Inclusive Mobility in Barcelona (only for some stakeholders, TEA Cost Chair, and filming team) The objective of this outdoor movie will be to set up new standards for students and reach out to policy and practitioner communities who are increasingly demanding these social analyses to define and support their decisions. Three key transport experts and stakeholders (i.e. Francesc Magrinyà and Pau Noy) for the Mobility issue will accompanying us around three emblematic places of inclusive and innovative mobility policies in Barcelona: Super illas in Eixample; Tramway: the achieved interruption - Glories; the challenging mobility reorganization- Plaza Universitat. (10:00- 15:00).

Lunch (13:40-14:30) Introduction to trainees work2 Yoram Shiftan (14:30-15:00)

Trainees presentation (14.30-16.00)

Trainees work, (15:00-17:00, with TEA corner and filming team) Discussion with stakeholders (16.00-17.00)

End of day 1 (social activity: Visit of Barcelona: Urban and Mobility model)

End of day 2 (social activity: Dinner at Bio Center - 20.30))

1 TEA corner: Trainers will be available for working with trainees and with filming team Mª José Santaella and Nekane Goñi. 2 There will be around 30 trainees (i.e. 24 from outside and 6 from institutions, NGO, and local governments). Each trainees’ group including 5 persons will develop one of the six concrete presented approaches and practices in Equity and Transport.


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Final International Conference

Bridging Transport Equity: A real-life lab on TEA COST guidelines

9 march 2017

8:45:-9:30 MC TEA Cost Action. Finalization of TEA Cost TU 1209 Activities (only for members)

09:30-09:50 Welcome Joan Mª Bigas, Barcelona Metropolitan Area-AMB

09:50-10:00 Outline of the day: Floridea Di Ciommo, TEA Cost Action-CENIT

10:00-10:10 Grant holder’s presentation- Sergi Saurí, CENIT

10:10-10:30 Introduction on TEA and general Cost activities, Mickael Pero, EU Cost Office

10:30-10:50 Conference introduction: Fair city, fair mobility: a political challenge: Salvador Milà, Barcelona Metropolitan Area- AMB

10:50-11:10 The Origin of TEA Cost Action: An ECTRI story, Caroline Almeras, ECTRI

11:10-11:30 Tea-Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Introductory lectures on:

Chaired by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal

Equity Guidelines for transport planning: how dealing with social disadvantages, spatial mismatch, environmental inequalities. Floridea Di Ciommo, CENIT

Transport policy actions: Madrid’s Air quality plan. Alvaro Fernandez Heredia, EMT-Transport Municipal Company of Madrid.

How much transport contributes to social inequalities?" Aimée Aguilar, OECD – International Transport Forum.

12:30-13:45 Linking to practice: Roundtable on Broadening horizons in evaluation approaches. Chaired by Rebecca Shliselberg, TLV University

UK Department for Transport: appraisal tools James Canton, DFT Equity tools implementation. The EMT example. Sergio Fernandez, EMT The Public transport networks and its accessibility. Luis Alegre. ATM Barcelona: the urban mobility model. Francesc Magrinyá, AMB Vulnerable population groups: results for older people in Sweden. Anders

Wretstrand, K2-University of Lund Future Transport Scenario for low resource people. Fay Dunkerley, Rand


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Audience Q&A

13:45-14:45 Lunch

14:45-16:00 Closing Statement: shifting the paradigm to inclusive mobility?

Transport Justice- Karel Martens - Radboud University The role of Activity Based Modeling in equity evaluation: Yoram Shiftan

- Technion How to Include Equity in Day-To-Day Transport Planning Practices:

Pier Luigi Coppola - UNI Tor Vergata Roma

16:00-17:00 Prize for trainees and Networking coffee


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Trainers, Speakers and Chairs

In order of appearance in the programme.

Floridea Di Ciommo

Chair, COST ACTION “Transport Equity Analysis: assessment and integration of equity criteria in transportation planning (TEA)”

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Floridea Di Ciommo, PhD in transport and urban planning at ENPC-Paris Tech and MSc. at Bocconi University-Milan is a lead researcher at the Centre for Innovation in Transport (CENIT) based within Barcelona Tech, where she is responsible for the research area on Sustainable Mobility and Travel Behaviour. She is chair of Transport and Equity Analysis TEA Cost Action TU1209 and a member of two National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicines-Transport Research Board Committees: Travel Behaviour and Value, and Women Issues in Transportation. She has an extensive experience in EU research projects and she regularly contributes to the EU H2020 WP for social and economic issues. She authored several publications on accessibility, equity, and travel behavior modeling. She is co-editor of the Special Issue on Transport and Equity Analysis of Transport Reviews with Yoram Shiftan.

Francesc Magrinyà

Director of the Strategic Planning Area

Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB)

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Francesc Magrinyá is a civil engineer and has a PhD in urban planning from Paris I-Sorbonne. He is currently assistant professor of urban planning at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). He has worked since 1988 in various jobs and transport planning consultancy. He has organized two expositions about urban planning in Barcelona: Cerdà.Urbs i Territori (1994) and 150 anys of Modernitat Cerdà (2009). He worked at the Catalan Agency for Urban Ecology of Barcelona (2000-2006), in which he participated, among others, in the project Octagonal Barcelona Bus Network and in the draft of the Superblock of Gracia. His social activity has been performed in cooperation projects (ASF and ESF) and cultural (Idensitat and Collective Architectures) environmental (CST, PTP, BACC and Som Energia) and social entities (RecreantCruïlles).


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Karel Martens

Associate Professor of Transport Planning & Leona Chanin Chair

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (IL) & Radboud University (NL)

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Karel Martens holds a bachelor and master degree in Spatial Planning (1986; 1991) and a PhD in Policy Sciences (2000), all from Radboud University, the Netherlands. He is an international expert on transport and justice. He has authored numerous publications on the topic, culminating in his recent book Transport Justice: Designing Fair Transportation Systems. Martens holds the Leona Chanin Chair at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which he combines with a position at Radboud University (the Netherlands). In 2014, he was elected Transport Professional of the Year in the Netherlands, in part because of his inspiring work on transport and justice.

Rebecca Shliselberg

Department of Geography and Human Environment

Tel Aviv University

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After many years of experience as a transport planning consultant, Rebecca Shliselberg combines continued professional and advocacy work in promoting sustainable transport with studies as a doctoral candidate at Porter School of Environmental Studies and as a researcher at the Transport Studies Unit in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. Her research has evolved through continued participation in the TEA COST Action, focusing on widening the considerations of wellbeing in assessing transport policies.


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Yoram Shiftan

Head of Technion Transportation Research Institute

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Yoram Shiftan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Technion, and the head of Technion Transportation Research Institute. Prof. Shiftan teaches and conducts research in travel behavior with a focus on activity-based modeling and response to policies, the complex relationships between transport, the environment and land use, transport economics and project evaluation. Prof. Shiftan is the editor of Transport Policy and was the chair of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). He is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committees of the Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy Committee (AP030), and the Committee on Metropolitan Policy, Planning, and Processes (ADA20), and a past member of the Travel Behavior and Values Committee (ADB10). He is a member of the World Conference Transportation Research (WCTR) scientific committee, and chair of its Transport Security Special Interest Group. Prof. Shiftan received his Ph.D. from MIT and since then has published dozens of papers and co-edited four books: “Transportation Planning” in the series of Classics in Planning; “Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility, The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions”; ”Sustainable Urban Transport”; and “Securing Transportation Systems.”

Jeroen Bastiaansen

PhD-Student at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS)

University of Leeds

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Jeroen Bastiaanssen is a PhD-Student at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), based at the University of Leeds. His research topic relates to the role of transport in young people’s accessibility to employment opportunities, within the context of transport-related social exclusion, led by prof. Karen Lucas. With professor Karel Martens he has been working on the theme of accessibility and equity. He is young researcher within TEA Cost Action.


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Yoav Lerman

Technion – Israel Institute for Technology

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Yoav Lerman, PhD in geography, is an urban geographer specializing in spatial analysis and the relationship between the built environment and pedestrian movement. Lerman is currently researching accessibility and transport justice at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute for Technology. In addition, Yoav has been involved in studies conducted for the Israel National Road Safety Authority and the Israel Insurance Fund and has published papers on urban planning, transport planning and space syntax in journals such as Geographical Analysis and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

Anders Wretstrand

Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering

Lund University

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Anders Wretstrand, PhD, is associate professor, deputy head of the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering, at Lund University, and research manager at K2 - Sweden's national centre for research and education on public transport. He teaches on undergraduate and graduate transport planning courses. His interests revolve around the user and travel chain perspective, impact assessment, public transport risks, accidents, injuries, and mobility and access for persons with reduced mobility.


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Nir Sharav (Sharaby)

Economic Consultant

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Nir Sharav is a financial and economic consultant who advises the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance. He specializes in transport economics modeling and finance, transport policy and strategic transport planning, fare policy, and transport research. Nir directed the Public Transport Strategic Plan project for the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance (2012). Nir directed several strategic transport plans, including the strategic plan for Israel rail system 2040 (2015-2016), the Jerusalem mass transit system (2014), the Haifa mass transit system (2015) and the Tel Aviv public transport strategic plan 2040-2060 (2015-2016). He also edited the Transport Project Economic Appraisal Guide for Ministries of Transport and Finance (Nohal Prat 2006 and 2012). Nir lead the public transport fare policy committee. He played a key role in defining the new transit fare system in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa (2008-2016).

Lucía Mejía Dorantes

Fraunhofer Institute

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Lucia Mejia Dorantes, completed her Ph.D. at University of Madrid (UPM)-Transport Research Centre (TRANSyT). Since March 2013 she has been working for the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in the Sustainability and Infrastructure System Unit. She joined the IFSTTAR as a post-doctoral researcher in Lille where she worked in the case study of the old coal mining area of the Nord-Pas de Calais Region to analyse the ex-ante effects of a new tramway system using qualitative and quantitative techniques. She is specialized on the assessment of the long term effects of a transport infrastructure and especially to the impact on house prices and firms’ location using spatial analysis, along with ex-ante and ex-post techniques. Currently, she is working on Equity and gender equality issues in transport. Her work has been presented in several conferences, and published in different journals. She is young researcher within the TEA Cost Action.


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Maria José Santaella

Avanzia

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Mª José Fdez de Santaella is a television producer. She had worked 25 years in “Antena 3 TV” in charge of organising News and entertainment programs. Nowadays, she is working for Avanzia such as audiovisual producer for cultural events.

Nekane Goñi

Avanzia

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Nekane Goñi is a journalist. She has worked in different media, fundamentally in “Antena 3 TV”, were she worked for 25 years as a reporter and team organizer. She currently works as a freelance performing journalistic jobs and videos for several companies, among them Avanzia. Her main sectors of activity are: environment and health services.

Pau Noy

Deputy Director of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) [email protected]

Pau Noy is Barcelona Deputy Director of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB). He holds its industrial engineer degree at UPC-Barcelona tech. He worked such as engineer at the Municipality of Sabadell. In 2013, he was director of the Cities Prosperity Initiative at UN-Habitat office in Barcelona. He is a key expert of the mobility and urban model for Barcelona and its metropolitan area.


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Elisabete Arsenio

LNEC

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Elisabete Arsenio, PhD at University of Leeds is expert on transport economics and transport policies for sustainable urban mobility. She is the leader/moderator of the Transport Economics and Policies’ (ECOPOL) Group of ECTRI, a European organization based in Brussels that represents a unique “Science Think-tank” for sustainable and multimodal transport with members from 27 transport research institutes/universities. She is co-author of the “Manual on Best Practices for a Sustainable Mobility” (volumes I and II), edited by the Portuguese Environmental Agency in 2010. Elisabete Arsenio is since 2002 the Ambassador Member for Portugal of the Association for European Transport (AET). In 2012, she received the AET prize. In December 2014 she received the national prize award for the research study on the evaluation of intermodal transport scenarios centered in the Port of Sines.

Pierluigi Coppola

University of Rome Tor Vergata

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Pierluigi Coppola, Ph.D. in Road Infrastructures and Transportation Systems, is Associate Professor in Transportation at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His research interests include Land-Use and Transportation Interactions (LUTI) models, accessibility and sustainable mobility planning. In recent years Prof. Coppola has studied the impacts of High-speed Rail in Italy, investigating new methods for assessing mega-projects. He has been principal investigator of projects of relevant national interest (PRIN) in Italy, and has participated in research projects on Intelligent Transport Systems and public transportation planning in The Netherlands and Spain. Prof. Coppola is author of more than 70 papers published on book and international journals. He is currently chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association for European Transport, and expert of high consultancy of the Italian Ministry for Infrastructures and Transports.


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Bat-hen Nahmias–Biran

Postdoctoral Associate- ITSLAB MIT

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Dr. Bat-hen Nahmias – Biran is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT working at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre’s Future Urban Mobility (FM) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG). As a Postdoctoral Associate, Bat-hen is working on the integrated simulation platform of SMART-FM, called SimMobility. Her work focuses on the development of improved capabilities in advanced forms of mobility including mobility on-demand and uber-like services in the mid-term simulator. She received her Ph.D. in Transportation economics from Technion in 2016. As part of her dissertation, Bat-hen developed two new measures that can capture both equity and efficiency considerations in economic evaluation of transportation projects. She is young researcher within the TEA Cost Action.

Joan Mª Bigas

Director of Mobility and Transport

Services Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB)

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Joan mª Bigas is a Civil engineer by UPC Barcelona-tech, with a master in economy and Business Management. He has more than 20 years of experience in public transport and mobility Management. Currently, he is Director of Mobility and Transport at Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB). He is as well CEO of AMB Information and Services, that is a public enterprise for the use of ITS in the mobility planning.


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Sergi Saurí

Director of CENIT (Centre for Innovation in Transport)

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Sergi Saurí Marchán holds his PhD in Civil Engineering and his Master in Shipping Business at UPC-Barcelona-Tech. He got his degree in Economics at the University of Barcelona. He is director of CENIT. From 2004 to 2016, he was assistant Professor in Transportation at the Department of Transport at the UPC (lecturing at the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona, School of Nautical Studies of Barcelona and the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona). From 2013-2016, he was director of the Master in Supply Chain, Transportation and Mobility at UPC. Currently he is member of the Board Committee of the Professional Association of Civil Engineers of Catalonia.

Mickael Pero

Science Officer, COST Association

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Mickael Pero, PhD in Economics, is Science Officer at the COST Association responsible of a portfolio of Actions dedicated to Transport and Urban Development. Previously (2012-2014), he received a Marie Curie grant within the EU project ManETEI to investigate the emergence of technologies. During his research he was hosted by the Fraunhofer (ISI) and could develop close collaborations to gain insight on the topic both from a private perspective with Bayer Technology Services as well as from a holistic perspective with the EU project ResAgora. His academic background stands in Economics of Science and Innovation with a PhD obtained at the Bocconi University (Milan, 2013). In parallel, he applied his knowledge and know-how to the study of Research Infrastructures by contributing to the EU project RIFI, being at that time hosted by the Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste (2006-2011). This experience was complementary to previous knowledge acquired in the socio-economic evaluations of technological SMEs (Brussels and Wallonia, 2004) as well as the technological platform MINATEC (Grenoble, 2005).


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Salvador Milà

Director of Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB)

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Salvador Milà is a Lawyer, specialized in Urban, environmental and real-state right, with long experience in legal adviser for several municipalities. He has as well an extensive political experience in the field of urban planning, housing, water and environmental issues. He holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona with a specialization in administrative and urban law. At the political level, in 1975 he formally integrated the Communist Party. Elected in the Municipality of Mataró in 1979, he served such as councilor of Urbanism until 1984. Between 1987 and 1999 he was reelected. From 1992 to 1999 he was councilor of Urbanism. He left his municipal political responsibilities in May 2003. On 2003-2006, he was appointed Conseller (minister) of Environment and Housing of the Generalitat de Catalunya, a position he held until. He was also deputy in the Parlament de Catalunya by the parliamentary group of Iniciativa per Catalunya between 2006 and 2015 (legislatures VIII, IX and X).

Caroline Almeras

ECTRI Secretary General

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Dr. Caroline Alméras is a senior European public affairs specialist with 15 years’ experience in EU public relations, legal advising and advocacy. After working several years as a lawyer first at the European Commission (EC) then at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), she joined the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) in 2003 as project officer in charge of developing the activities of the association. In 2009, she was recruited as Deputy Director for European and International affairs at the French Institute for Transport Research (INRETS). The year after she was appointed Secretary General of ECTRI. From then, she is responsible for the strategic development, representation and overall management of the Association.


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Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

ISGlobal

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Dr. Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD Research professor, is an expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impact assessment. He has experience and expertise in areas of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, mental health and cognitive function, cancer and reproductive health, and exposure measurement and modelling of indoor and outdoor air pollution, pesticides, green space, UV exposure, occupational allergens, chlorination by-products in drinking water and heavy metals, using new technology such as GIS, smartphones, personal sensors and remote sensing. He leads the international TAPAS study (http://www.tapas-program.org/), examining the health impacts of active transport in six European cities and the EC funded PHENOTYPE (www.phenotype.eu) study, examining the relations between green space and health and he is a co-investogators for five additional EU projects.

Alvaro Fernandez Heredia

Director of EMT-Transport Municipal Company of Madrid

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Alvaro Fernandez Heredia holds his PhD in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He has directed the Master in Civil Engineering at the European University of Madrid where he was professor of Transportation Planning, Management and Exploitation until 2015. He has an extensive professional experience in transport sector. Alvaro worked such as a researcher at the Transport Research Center (TRANSyT) at the UPM. In 2010, he founded 'cambiaMO', a cooperative dedicated to consulting on issues related to mobility and urban and regional planning. In September 2015, he was appointed Director of EMT.


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Aimée Aguilar

Economist International Transport Forum. OECD (MEXICO)

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Aimée Aguilar Jaber is an Economist at the Research and Policy Analysis Unit of the International Transport Forum (ITF), at the OECD. Aimée is specialized in urban transport and is in charge of leading the development of case specific studies and roundtable meetings in a range of subjects. Among these are mobility and social inclusion, strategies for mitigation of transport-related pollution, metropolitan governance and better regulation of public transport services, and the improvement of linkages between transport and key sectors, such as land-use, housing and the environment. She recently lead the Roundtable Meeting on “Income Inequality, Social Inclusion and Mobility”, in the context of the OECD’s Centre for Opportunity and Equality platform. She also developed a synthesis of the debate, which will be part of the forthcoming publication.

James Canton

Social and Behavioural Research (SBR), Department for Transport

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James Canton has a PhD in Public Policy and works at the Department for Transport as Principal Research Officer in the Social and Behavioural Research team. One of his core areas of work is leading on research and analysis for assessing the distributional impacts of transport investment decisions. He is currently leading a new piece of work to ensure that ‘people-centred approaches’ are incorporated into transport business cases. He also leads DfT’s use of longitudinal research and work on ageing, and has expertise in the application behavioural insights within a transport context (e.g. to improve road safety). He has an interest in sociological approaches for researching communities and social resilience.


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Sergio Fernández Balaguer

EMT-Transport Municipal Company of Madrid

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Sergio Fernandez holds a Master Degree in Forestry Engineering. Until 2008 he worked as Environmental Consultant in the biggest Law firm in Spain. In 2008 he joined Madrid City Council and since 2011 he has been working at EMT specializing himself in sustainable urban mobility with special emphasis in mobility governance, electric mobility and international R&D&I projects and networks. He is currently working for the Communication and Consultancy Department of Madrid Public Transport Company (EMT), leading the European Projects department, providing technical assistance to the City Council itself. He has been involved in the Transport and Equity Analysis TEA Cost Action on behalf of EMT.

Lluís Alegre

Technical Director of Autoritat del Transport Metropolita (ATM)-Organisation chart of the consortium

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Lluís Alegre is director of the ATM Technical Area, being in charge of the coordination of infrastructure planning for public transport, mobility and transport. He leads the definition of strategies that guarantee transport services of the metropolitan tram of Barcelona. He manage the provision of strategic and technical assistance to the administrations that lead the Consortium. The main objective of his role is to streamline metropolitan projects. He represents the ATM in various international organizations such as EMTA (European Metropolitan Transport Authorities), UITP, and other international forums.


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Fay Dunkerley

RAND Europe

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Fay Dunkerley, PhD in economics from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, is an economist at RAND Europe who has worked in both academic and consultancy environments. Her work has predominantly focused on the transport sector, with research projects ranging from the funding of transport infrastructure at the EU level to explaining public transport fares from a political economy perspective. Recent studies at RAND include a scenario based approach to the future of travel in Britain in 2035, which addressed the impact of technology, as well as evaluations of the socio-economic impacts of regional concessionary travel and of liability laws on the deployment of autonomous vehicles.


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Organisers

Floridea Di Ciommo

Chair, COST ACTION “Transport Equity Analysis: assessment and integration of equity criteria in transportation planning (TEA)”

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Carla Tenedor

GH Manager/Administrator

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Sergi Saurí

GH Finance Representative

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Mª Angels Oliva

Administrative assistant – Estrategic Planification Area (AMB)

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Francesc Magrinyà

Director of the Strategic Planning Area (AMB)

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Mercè Fernández

Manager of Public relations (AMB)

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Guidelines for equity planning

Editors: Floridea Di Ciommo & Yoram Shiftan

Authors: Ifigenia Psarra, Jean Ryan, Yoram Shiftan, Floridea Di Ciommo, Karel Martens, Anders Wretstrand, Pierluigi Coppola, Ariane Dupont, Elisabete Arsenio, Elisabetta Venezia.

The aim of TEA Cost guidelines is to provide practitioners and urban planners a step by step process for assessing transportation project/policy behind an equity point of view.

DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING EQUITY IN TRANSPORT PLANNING

While transport evaluation remains significant, equity assessment in transport planning is not sufficient and needs to be better understood and examined in terms of accessibility, mobility, and health effects. This broader focus is needed, among others, because of the emergence of the weaknesses of the current planning tools for transport infrastructures and services in incorporating equity considerations and the complexity in identifying the impacts of travel behaviours on society, environment, and equity (Lucas et al., 2016). Discussions during the workshops, core groups meetings, and Training school were dedicated to analysing mobility and transport policies in the light of equity in transport, i.e. with a focus on evaluating their capacity to address transport-related exclusion of various population groups.

This executive summary will present basic approaches in transport planning that consider different types of access to transport services and everyday activities, addressing equity and social exclusion in transport.

Within this framework the summary is oriented to:

1) Define equity in the context of transport (i.e. definition)

2) Highlight the importance of equity for transport appraisal

3) Help embedding equity assessment into future transport policies and investments, accounting for needs of people.

The basic definition of equity used here is ‘the distribution of benefits and costs over members of society’ (e.g., Boucher and Kelly, 1998; Miller, 1999). Based on this definition, three key components of equity in transport can be distinguished: (1) the benefits and costs that are being distributed; (2) the population groups over which benefits and costs are distributed; and (3) the distributive principle that determines whether a particular distribution is “morally proper” and “socially acceptable”.

The main challenge for the assessment of equity in the domain of transportation is to define and operationalize costs and benefits and the distributive principle. The definition and


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operationalization of population groups are carried out in many domains of research and policy, including transportation. However, while the diverse impacts of transport policies and investments on different population groups have long been recognized, understanding and explicitly assessing these impacts as part of an equitable and inclusive perspective requires further developments.

As the expected mobility costs increase (fuel price, congestion charging, public transport budget constraints, etc.), the related various impacts of transport policies and their distribution are becoming even more important (Hengel et al., 1998). In addition, the high level of mobility has created land use patterns that are difficult to navigate for non-motorized transport users (Geurs and van Wee, 2004). This issue has recently gained attention due to the ageing of the population and the related growth in the number of people that are no longer able to drive a car or use a bike (European Commission, 2011).

These last two issues, which have different impacts of different population groups, have contributed to the realization that equity should play a constitutive role in transport provision, similarly to the role it plays in education and health care, where equity considerations form a part of everyday decision-making.

The guidelines for equity in transport focus on the process of assessing equity for transportation project/policy. They need interpretation according to the context of the project/policy, the intervention area and the special characteristics of it. This can lead to implementation that are different from those described in this document.

How equity is defined and measured can significantly influence analysis results. A specific alternative solution may seem equitable when evaluated one way but inequitable when evaluated another. It is advised to consider various perspectives and impacts. There is no single correct methodology (Di Ciommo and Shiftan 2017). A planning process should reflect each community’s concerns and priorities, so public engagement and people participation is important for equity analysis (Litman, 2002).

Equity goals are related with:

Fair allocation of transport resources. Equal opportunity to be mobile and have access to key `life chance` activities. Reducing adverse effects of transport system – including pollution, accidents and social

exclusion.

The following diagram shows the overall recommended process for considering equity in transport planning and investment policy.

PLANNING CYCLE FOR EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM


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Roadmap outlining

While the guidelines are more oriented to define the framework for planning an equitable transportation system, and answering to the first two TEA Cost Action objectives (i.e. to define equity in the context of transport; to highlight the importance of equity for transport appraisal), the roadmap start from the point where we are now in transport investment appraisal to the point where equity is an inherent element, and deals with the third objective “To help embed equity assessment into future transport policies and investments. The Roadmap presents a typology of actors and proposes a strategy comprising the tactical moves and practical steps that can be taken towards making equity an inherent element of transport investment appraisal.

The Roadmap is framed as a roadmapping process, whereby the path from the origin to the destination is not clear-cut, includes many variables, varying contexts, differing sets of actors, and so forth. It is therefore intended to be treated as a living process to be edited, adjusted and revised as appropriate. The intention of the roadmap is to present the strategic, tactical and practical ways in which these considerations can be carried from the research discourse into transport appraisal in practice.

The following slides present the key elements of the TEA Cost roadmap.

Roadmap PresentationTEA COST ACTION

TU12091.Who is the Roadmap for?

2.What form should the Roadmap take?

Who is the Roadmap for? Ourselves?

Academic language

Terms with which the group is familiar

Planners, stakeholders?

User-friendly

Accessible

Readable

Digestible

What form should the Roadmap take? Bottom-up or top-down? Both?

Actor-based

Discussions surrounding what is possible

Differences in context between EU countries, regions and cities

The Roadmap’s Guiding Framework

3 key components

The Roadmap’s Milestone Indicators

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