Gerard Wellman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard Wellman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | Wellman |
| SIGNATURE | WELLMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Stanislaus |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transit Stigma
Public transportation use is heavily stigmatized in the United States. As a result, those who depend on public transportation services for mobility are marginalized and subject to unjust social assumptions about their character, work ethic, and overall place in society. Prior research documents that public transit administrators are actively working to combat transit stigma in their service area; however, questions remain regarding how public tra…
Finding “Improvement” in the Language Transportation Planners Use
This research considers the urban planning situations in which transportation planners implicitly or explicitly use the term “improvement.” To answer our research questions—what do planners and policymakers mean by improvement, and how do these improvements challenge or reinforce car-centered transportation planning—we conducted a discourse analysis on documents from 50 cities, counties, and state departments of transportation. Using a critical d…
Equity and public finance issues in the state subsidy of public transit
Purpose Public transit is an essential service for people without access to an automobile, particularly those who are low income, elderly, or with disabilities. Previous research has found that large urban transit agencies receive less state funding per ride provided than suburban agencies. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the National Transit Database for 37 of the largest US transit agencies, the…
Transit Paradise Lost
Among the ways the pursuit of social justice by transit administrators can be thwarted are a lack of support by local elected and unelected leaders; funding mechanisms and budget reductions, which prevent the transit agency from fully achieving its objectives; and zoning and development decisions, which take urban development continually farther from the dense, transit-friendly urban core and frustrate the ability of transit providers to reach sp…
Transportation Apartheid
Transportation policy in the United States has historically been the locus of social change, playing a signifcant role in social policy – like the 20th century Civil Rights movement – and economic policy. This research suggests that current transportation policymaking practices favor certain groups, primarily automobile users and suburban commuters, at the expense of other groups, mostly poor and urban minority populations who rely on public tran…
Community empowerment and public transportation agencies
Access to transportation is determinative of many quality of life indicators like health, employment, and education. Without the ability to travel within cities, individuals are effectively barred from resources necessary for empowerment, societal engagement, and productivity. Mass transit systems in the United States have long been underfunded compared to other industrialized democracies and frequently face severe constraints due to decreasing p…
Smart growth principles and the management of urban sprawl
Employing a policy communities framework to compare implementation efforts among a set of cities, this study seeks to answer the question: do public policies advocated by the Smart Growth Network, a coalition of organizations promoting a specific policy agenda, provide cities with policy initiatives, guidance, and tools that manage urban sprawl. In other words, do policy advocacy coalitions promote policies that actually manage sprawl? The author…
Community empowerment and public transportation agencies
Access to transportation is determinative of many quality of life indicators like health, employment, and education. Without the ability to travel within cities, individuals are effectively barred from resources necessary for empowerment, societal engagement, and productivity. Mass transit systems in the United States have long been underfunded compared to other industrialized democracies and frequently face severe constraints due to decreasing p…
Smart growth principles and the management of urban sprawl
Employing a policy communities framework to compare implementation efforts among a set of cities, this study seeks to answer the question: do public policies advocated by the Smart Growth Network, a coalition of organizations promoting a specific policy agenda, provide cities with policy initiatives, guidance, and tools that manage urban sprawl. In other words, do policy advocacy coalitions promote policies that actually manage sprawl? The author…
Transit Stigma
Public transportation use is heavily stigmatized in the United States. As a result, those who depend on public transportation services for mobility are marginalized and subject to unjust social assumptions about their character, work ethic, and overall place in society. Prior research documents that public transit administrators are actively working to combat transit stigma in their service area; however, questions remain regarding how public tra…
Transportation Apartheid
Transportation policy in the United States has historically been the locus of social change, playing a signifcant role in social policy – like the 20th century Civil Rights movement – and economic policy. This research suggests that current transportation policymaking practices favor certain groups, primarily automobile users and suburban commuters, at the expense of other groups, mostly poor and urban minority populations who rely on public tran…
Finding “Improvement” in the Language Transportation Planners Use
This research considers the urban planning situations in which transportation planners implicitly or explicitly use the term “improvement.” To answer our research questions—what do planners and policymakers mean by improvement, and how do these improvements challenge or reinforce car-centered transportation planning—we conducted a discourse analysis on documents from 50 cities, counties, and state departments of transportation. Using a critical d…
Smart growth principles and the management of urban sprawl
Employing a policy communities framework to compare implementation efforts among a set of cities, this study seeks to answer the question: do public policies advocated by the Smart Growth Network, a coalition of organizations promoting a specific policy agenda, provide cities with policy initiatives, guidance, and tools that manage urban sprawl. In other words, do policy advocacy coalitions promote policies that actually manage sprawl? The author…
Community empowerment and public transportation agencies
Access to transportation is determinative of many quality of life indicators like health, employment, and education. Without the ability to travel within cities, individuals are effectively barred from resources necessary for empowerment, societal engagement, and productivity. Mass transit systems in the United States have long been underfunded compared to other industrialized democracies and frequently face severe constraints due to decreasing p…
Transportation Apartheid
Transportation policy in the United States has historically been the locus of social change, playing a signifcant role in social policy – like the 20th century Civil Rights movement – and economic policy. This research suggests that current transportation policymaking practices favor certain groups, primarily automobile users and suburban commuters, at the expense of other groups, mostly poor and urban minority populations who rely on public tran…
Transit Paradise Lost
Among the ways the pursuit of social justice by transit administrators can be thwarted are a lack of support by local elected and unelected leaders; funding mechanisms and budget reductions, which prevent the transit agency from fully achieving its objectives; and zoning and development decisions, which take urban development continually farther from the dense, transit-friendly urban core and frustrate the ability of transit providers to reach sp…
Equity and public finance issues in the state subsidy of public transit
Purpose Public transit is an essential service for people without access to an automobile, particularly those who are low income, elderly, or with disabilities. Previous research has found that large urban transit agencies receive less state funding per ride provided than suburban agencies. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the National Transit Database for 37 of the largest US transit agencies, the…
Finding “Improvement” in the Language Transportation Planners Use
This research considers the urban planning situations in which transportation planners implicitly or explicitly use the term “improvement.” To answer our research questions—what do planners and policymakers mean by improvement, and how do these improvements challenge or reinforce car-centered transportation planning—we conducted a discourse analysis on documents from 50 cities, counties, and state departments of transportation. Using a critical d…
Transit Stigma
Public transportation use is heavily stigmatized in the United States. As a result, those who depend on public transportation services for mobility are marginalized and subject to unjust social assumptions about their character, work ethic, and overall place in society. Prior research documents that public transit administrators are actively working to combat transit stigma in their service area; however, questions remain regarding how public tra…
Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public transport (6 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)