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Date

4-17-2024

Description

How do people with intersecting marginal identities experience social exclusion as they travel via mass transit? To answer this question, PSU researchers employed a qualitative method less common in transportation studies: photovoice. Researchers asked participants to describe the factors that shape their travel behavior and provide photographic data of their experiences. Then, they conducted in-depth video interviews to gain further depth and clarity regarding the visual data. The findings from this study can help transit system designers better understand how experiences of harassment and discrimination across the entire users’ journey affects the riders’ decisions about whether and when to take transit, and the extent to which transit-related infrastructure is related to decisions about where to live or their access to long-term housing.

Biographical

Dr. Marisa Zapata leads the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC), an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to reducing homelessness and its negative impacts on individuals, families, and communities, with an emphasis on communities of color. She is also an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning. As an educator, scholar, and planner, Dr. Zapata is committed to achieving spatially-based social justice by preparing planners to act in the face of the uncertain and inequitable futures we face. She believes how we use land reflects our social and cultural values. Dr. Zapata has published in peer review journals such as Planning Theory & Practice, International Planning Studies, Policy Studies, and Critical Policy Analysis. She is the co-editor of Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans and Projects, published in 2007 and recently translated into Chinese.

Subjects

Local transit accessibility -- Evaluation, Homelessness -- Social aspects, Transportation and state, Transportation -- Social aspects, Transportation -- Planning

Disciplines

Transportation | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42352

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