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The conceptual mismatch: transportation stressors and experiences for low-income adults.
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2015-10-01
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Alternative Title:Study title: transportation and access to opportunity: metropolitan size, user experience, and employment quality.
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Abstract:Physical access to jobs has long been identified as a barrier to employment and earnings, with prior
research identifying the “spatial mismatch” between suburban entry-level jobs and low-income workers.
However, existing transportation research on physical access fails to adequately account for the complex
role that transportation needs, stressors, benefits, and costs play in low-income households. Through
qualitative analysis, this study examines the role of transportation in the lives of low-income adults in two
medium-sized metropolitan areas and how their actual, lived transportation experiences function as
stressors with potentially compounding impacts. The study finds that job accessibility models that only
account for travel time and location may not reflect the transportation time tax associated with accessing
employment for some low-income households.
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