Distributive justice and equity in transportation

This article discuses about justice and equity means in transportation context by
reviewing political philosophy key theories of justice with their concept, principle
and pattern distribution. Also discuss some of their insights and limitations when
applied to issues of transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and accessibility.
Because of limited engagement for the justice in transportation in literature, the
number of definitions of this term is too few and it is actually by pluralistic
perspectives which more consider accessibility rather than distributive justice and
transport disadvantage. Also equity is defined in different ways, mostly focused
on implying a moral judgement.

Overview of theories of justice in political philosophy

The theory of Utilitarianism provides the ethical foundation of cost benefit
analysis. The structure of this theory is mostly about the welfare and human well-
being with the pattern of maximizing aggregation of welfare. One of the criticisms
for this theory is unknown distribution of well-being. Another one is violating
rights and reducing liberty by somebody. And the last one is confliction of
maximizing aggregate well-being with respecting individuals’ rights.
The theory of Libertarianism which is the heart of justice by self-ownership
definition for each individual who has fundamental rights and liberties. The
criticism is that libertarianism gives to individual a priority for liberty in choices
even if they come at the expense of human.
The theory of Intuitionism relates to consideration of different moral values
(rights, merit, equality ...), different distribution for needs and resources and their
complexity level in real life. Perspectives shared by authors for whom moral
propositions are self-evident and basic moral knowledge is acquired through
intuition. Intuitionism is of little help because it is unclear when each principle
would be the right one to choose, or how one should proceed to reconcile or
priorities competing moral principles.