TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing justice in sustainable mobility transitions: narratives from transport policies in Jakarta
AU - Hidayati, Isti
AU - Tan, Wendy
PY - 2025/1/15
Y1 - 2025/1/15
N2 - Despite the recent growing concern for justice in the sustainable mobility transition, individuals’ experiences of injustice remain inadvertently neglected in favour of maximising the common good for society. As a result, identifying and assessing injustices remain elusive and tricky to operationalise into actionable policy. This article proposes an analytic and evaluation framework for capturing different narratives of injustice resulting from three transport policies aiming for a sustainable mobility transition in Jakarta: (1) traffic restriction policy, (2) integrated public transport, and (3) improvement of walking and cycling infrastructures. Using content analysis of news media to identify how these policies are perceived by and affect various segments of the population, our findings revealed that a broader scope of injustice is experienced by the low-income populace, including those with ‘forced’ motorcycle ownership and captive public transport users. These individualised injustices can result from policies aiming to improve the overall transport condition, claiming sustainable mobility values. Further, our proposed framework highlights shortcomings of current urban and transport planning assessments, which tend to quantify how justice ought to be distributed. The article concludes with policy insights to address transport injustices in Jakarta and other growing Asian metropolises facing a widening socio-economic inequality.
AB - Despite the recent growing concern for justice in the sustainable mobility transition, individuals’ experiences of injustice remain inadvertently neglected in favour of maximising the common good for society. As a result, identifying and assessing injustices remain elusive and tricky to operationalise into actionable policy. This article proposes an analytic and evaluation framework for capturing different narratives of injustice resulting from three transport policies aiming for a sustainable mobility transition in Jakarta: (1) traffic restriction policy, (2) integrated public transport, and (3) improvement of walking and cycling infrastructures. Using content analysis of news media to identify how these policies are perceived by and affect various segments of the population, our findings revealed that a broader scope of injustice is experienced by the low-income populace, including those with ‘forced’ motorcycle ownership and captive public transport users. These individualised injustices can result from policies aiming to improve the overall transport condition, claiming sustainable mobility values. Further, our proposed framework highlights shortcomings of current urban and transport planning assessments, which tend to quantify how justice ought to be distributed. The article concludes with policy insights to address transport injustices in Jakarta and other growing Asian metropolises facing a widening socio-economic inequality.
KW - Transport justice
KW - Equity
KW - Transport policy
KW - Sustainable mobility
KW - Framework of (in)justice
KW - Justice
KW - Injustice
U2 - 10.1080/1523908X.2025.2452923
DO - 10.1080/1523908X.2025.2452923
M3 - Article
SN - 1523-908X
JO - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
JF - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
ER -