In this article, the authors examine low-income households’ transitions into and out of car ownership. They focus on car ownership because of the crucial role that access to a car plays in enabling participation in society and the hardships that those without cars face.
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Research by Klein, Basu & Smart – In the driver’s seat: Pathways to automobile ownership for lower-income households in the United States
The authors examine how lower-income households in the United States acquire automobiles. Although car ownership plays a vital role in social and economic mobility in the US, transportation scholars know little about how low-income households obtain cars.
Prof. Michael Smart Cited in Vehicle Access Article
In an article titled "US Auto Access Improves Over a Decade," published in New Geography, Wendell Cox reflects on domestic policy surrounding access to transportation. Citing "The Poverty of the Carless: Toward Universal Auto Access" authored by King, Smart, and...
2019’s Cities with the Best & Worst Public Transportation
Bloustein Associate Professor Mike Smart is one of five featured experts who were asked how America's public transportation could be improved, and what makes a good system in the first place, in WalletHub's ranking of U.S. cities with the best and worst public...
Why congestion pricing is a wise investment for society | Opinion
....some advocates for low-income households and the environment complain that user fees for driving are regressive, i.e. they take a higher percent of the incomes of poor households. The problem with this argument is that, if driving continues to be subsidized, there...
Bloustein Faculty Profile: Mike Smart, assistant professor of transportation planning
by Paul Hislip, Communications intern (Class of 2018) I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Bloustein School assistant professor Michael Smart, whose primary research has explored the ways in which social networks embedded in particular neighborhoods of...
Michael Smart to join Bloustein School as assistant professor
Dr. Michael Smart, most recently a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at UCLA and research lead for the Complete Streets Initiative at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, will join the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy,...
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