Reframing data-driven decision framing as academic experts

Kate Lowe

Chapter 13 in A Research Agenda for Transport Equity and Mobility Justice, 2024, pp 189-200 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Using selected existing scholarly work and Chicago-based illustrative examples, this chapter describes three reasons we should question the rhetoric of data-driven decision-making by transportation agencies: it obscures embedded values; quantitative demand (usage) forecasts, which form the basis for many evaluation measures, have well-documented limitations; and the rhetoric fails to acknowledge the highly politicized, implementation-driven production of knowledge. Academics can help support more inclusive transportation knowledge production and deployment through both yielding and leveraging our claims of expertise, even in a landscape influenced by economic imperatives in knowledge production.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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