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Fair street space allocation: ethical principles and empirical insights

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  • Felix Creutzig
  • Aneeque Javaid
  • Zakia Soomauroo
  • Steffen Lohrey
  • Nikola Milojevic-Dupont
  • Anjali Ramakrishnan
  • Mahendra Sethi
  • Lijing Liu
  • Leila Niamir
  • Christopher Bren d’Amour
  • Ulf Weddige
  • Dominic Lenzi
  • Martin Kowarsch
  • Luisa Arndt
  • Lulzim Baumann
  • Jody Betzien
  • Lesly Fonkwa
  • Bettina Huber
  • Ernesto Mendez
  • Alexandra Misiou
  • Cameron Pearce
  • Paula Radman
  • Paul Skaloud
  • J. Marco Zausch

Abstract

Urban street space is increasingly contested. However, it is unclear what a fair street space allocation would look like. We develop a framework of ten ethical principles and three normative perspectives on street space – streets for transport, streets for sustainability, and streets as place – and discuss 14 derived street space allocation mechanisms. We contrast these ethically grounded allocation mechanisms with real-world allocation in 18 streets in Berlin. We find that car users, on average, had 3.5 times more space available than non-car users. While some allocation mechanisms are more plausible than others, none is without disputed normative implications. All of the ethical principles, however, suggest that on-street parking for cars is difficult to justify, and that cycling deserves more space. We argue that ethical principles should be systematically integrated into urban and transport planning.

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  • Felix Creutzig & Aneeque Javaid & Zakia Soomauroo & Steffen Lohrey & Nikola Milojevic-Dupont & Anjali Ramakrishnan & Mahendra Sethi & Lijing Liu & Leila Niamir & Christopher Bren d’Amour & Ulf Weddige, 2020. "Fair street space allocation: ethical principles and empirical insights," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(6), pages 711-733, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transr:v:40:y:2020:i:6:p:711-733
    DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2020.1762795
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    1. Kristian S. Nielsen & Kimberly A. Nicholas & Felix Creutzig & Thomas Dietz & Paul C. Stern, 2021. "The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions," Nature Energy, Nature, vol. 6(11), pages 1011-1016, November.
    2. Gössling, Stefan & Humpe, Andreas & Hologa, Rafael & Riach, Nils & Freytag, Tim, 2022. "Parking violations as an economic gamble for public space," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 248-257.
    3. Nicolas Palominos & Duncan A Smith, 2023. "Examining the geometry of streets through accessibility: new insights from streetspace allocation analysis," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 50(8), pages 2203-2219, October.
    4. Nikola Milojevic-Dupont & Nicolai Hans & Lynn H Kaack & Marius Zumwald & François Andrieux & Daniel de Barros Soares & Steffen Lohrey & Peter-Paul Pichler & Felix Creutzig, 2020. "Learning from urban form to predict building heights," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(12), pages 1-22, December.
    5. Haustein, Sonja & Kroesen, Maarten, 2022. "Shifting to more sustainable mobility styles: A latent transition approach," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
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