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Moving from access disparity to sufficiency: Believing that transportation access disparity analysis falls short of determining whether population groups actually had access. Researchers including Karel Martens believe that transportation sufficiency analysis will be more effective by setting explicit thresholds for access that don’t leave out certain groups caught in mass analysis. (Karel Martens et al. | Journal of the American Planning Association)

As traffic jams worsen in world's most expensive city, light rail builder says relief is on the way. Tel Aviv is embarking upon one of the world's most ambitious mass transit projects and relief could not come soon enough for commuters stuck in endless traffic jams in Israel's commercial and cultural capital. The Red Line light rail is set to start operations in one year, forming the backbone of an integrated network that will eventually include three light rail lines and three metro subway lines branching out across the Gush Dan region. The project's slogan in Hebrew is קשה עכשיו, קלה אחר כך (hard now, easy later). However, at least one transportation expert interviewed by i24NEWS asserts that relief is possible sooner, and the transit agency responsible for the rail network admits that it is a long-term solution.

What does it take to create fair and inclusive transport systems? Are we measuring the right thing or are we completely off track? Francesco Ripa sat down with Karel Martens, the author of Transport Justice: Designing Fair Transportation Systems and a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology to discuss his work, in view of his role at the POLIS Annual Conference 2021 as a keynote speaker