title: A Different Trolley Problem: The Limits of Environmental Justice and the Promise of Complex Moral Assessments for Transportation Infrastructure.
abstract: Transportation infrastructure tremendously affects the quality of life for urban residents, influences public and mental health, and shapes social relations. Historically, the topic is rich with social and political controversy and the resultant transit systems in the United States cause problems for minority residents and issues for the public. Environmental justice frameworks provide a means to identify and address harms that affect marginalized groups, but environmental justice has limits that cannot account for the mainstream population. To account for this condition, I employ a complex moral assessment measure that provides a way to talk about harms that affect the public.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #310920, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, USA. shane.epting@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Shane
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1432-1361
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Epting
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D009014:Morals; D011788:Quality of Life; D012935:Social Justice / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics; D014186:Transportation / Q000941:ethics*; D014481:United States
keywords: Complex moral assessment; Structural ethics; Transportation infrastructure; Urban planning