Inclusive Mobility: Dismantling transportation injustice at the intersection of race and disability.

Abstract

Transportation impacts population health. Historical trauma, structural inequities, and institutional discrimination have created transportation injustice. Transportation injustice is a product of systemic racism and ableism which perpetuates inequities, discrimination, and exclusion. However, systemic racism and ableism can compound injustice given one's social identities. In aligning with the principles of mobility justice and Crip Mobility Justice, this paper asserts that an intersectional lens is needed to dismantle transportation injustice and create a sustainable transportation system rooted in health equity. Specifically, social identities do not exist independent of each other, creating a complex convergence of oppression in transportation access. To support this viewpoint, we: (1) describe transportation history among two overlapping historically marginalized populations in the United States, Black people and people with disabilities, (2) articulate the impact transportation injustice has had on public health, and (3) advocate for an intersectional lens to dismantle unjust systems, policies, and structures.