ABSTRACT

The philosophical explorations thus far have delivered a fairly simple set of principles regarding fairness in the domain of accessibility. The bottom line of the argument is that all members of society should be guaranteed a sufficient level of accessibility under most, but not all, circumstances. A fair transport-land use system, in other words, provides sufficient accessibility to all members of society. The skeptical reader will argue that this is a mere reformulation of the question posed at the outset of the book. The question is no longer: On which principles of justice should transportation planning be based? Instead, the question now reads: What is a sufficient level of accessibility? Yet, as I aim to show in this chapter, this latter question can actually be answered by real-life agents through a deliberative democratic process.