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This article seeks to carry out a study on the measurement of justice in transportation through the introduction of original metrics of justice that consider different currencies (travel time, energy consumption, PM emissions and NOₓ emissions) and principles of justice (Equality, Priority and Sufficiency), relying on available data from five metropolitan regions in Latin America. Based on available data from five metropolitan regions in Latin America (Brasília, Ciudad de México, Montevideo, Santiago, and São Paulo), this manuscript seeks to reduce the theoretical gap in the transport literature through the development of metrics of distributive justice based on existing Origin-Destination transport surveys, which is expected to identify the characteristics that seem to govern a fairer transport system, as well as to inform practitioners and policy makers about the conditions driving fairer urban environments. In addition to contributions to the evaluation of transport policies with data from developing countries, the discussions presented in this paper intend to provide insights into the major role of selecting the principles of justice and the distributed resources to evaluate the degrees of fairness in transportation systems. • Gap between theoretical contributions on transport justice and empirical applications • Theoretical reflections provide an adequate framework for evaluating transportation • Different principles of justice yield different outputs in fairness assessment • Relevance of justifying the selection of relevant resources to be distributed [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper adds to the aging mobilities literature by addressing the need for more empirical studies in the Global South and utilizing the 2017 Household Origin-Destination Survey (HODS 2017) to broadly understand the mobility of older adults in Mexico City. We use descriptive statistics to reveal travel behavior patterns and construct a multinomial logit model to understand variations in mode choice of older adults in Mexico City. Our analysis does provide an emphasis on differences by income class, gender, and neighborhood level access to public transportation. Results uncovered transport-related inequalities as poorer older adults travel for longer periods of time compared to their wealthier peers. In terms of travel behaviors, we found that 40.5% of older adults reported using public and paid transit, 32% walked, 26.5% drove, and only 1.2% biked. Also, we learned that when older adults have access to good public transit infrastructure, they use it, regardless of car ownership status. Also, mobilities resulting from gender differences among older adults showed that older females are less likely to use structured public transit, walking, and biking in comparison to older males. Lastly we outline research limitations and recommendations for future transport policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]