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Competing mobility needs: The users, actors, and discourses in Atlanta, Georgia

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There is a growing use of sales tax referendums to fund transportation in the US; this takes conflicts over funding out of the technical planning process and into the public arena. An analytical framework is presented that examines the interactions between transport users, political actors, and discourses in the competition over transport resources. A case study of the selection of projects for a tax referendum in Atlanta, Georgia is used to illustrate the importance of understanding the interactions between all three factors. The outcome of the project selection represents the growing importance of the choice discourse in Atlanta. The political power of actors is not correlated to the size of transport user groups they represent. Understanding the differences in discourse is important to understand disagreements within actor coalitions.

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  • Paget-Seekins, Laurel, 2013. "Competing mobility needs: The users, actors, and discourses in Atlanta, Georgia," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 27(C), pages 142-149.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:27:y:2013:i:c:p:142-149
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.01.001
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    1. Alex Karner & Richard Duckworth, 2019. "‘Pray for transit’: Seeking transportation justice in metropolitan Atlanta," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(9), pages 1882-1900, July.

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