Twardzik Erica, Desjardins Michael R, Curriero Frank C, Swenor Bonnielin K, Jackson John W, Schrack Jennifer A, Pollack Porter Keshia M
School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA; Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA; Disability and Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA; Spatial Science for Public Health Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
Disabil Health J. 2025 May 6:101848. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101848.
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.
交通对人口健康有影响。历史创伤、结构性不平等和制度性歧视造成了交通不公。交通不公是系统性种族主义和残障歧视的产物,它使不平等、歧视和排斥长期存在。然而,考虑到一个人的社会身份,系统性种族主义和残障歧视会加剧不公。本文秉持流动正义和残障流动正义的原则,主张需要从交叉视角来消除交通不公,并创建一个基于健康公平的可持续交通系统。具体而言,社会身份并非彼此独立存在,这在交通可达性方面造成了压迫的复杂交织。为支持这一观点,我们:(1)描述美国两个历史上重叠的边缘化群体——黑人和残疾人——的交通历史,(2)阐明交通不公对公共健康的影响,以及(3)倡导从交叉视角来拆除不公正的系统、政策和结构。