1. Beyond Transit Justice: Lessons From Welfare Reform for Transportation Policies and the Poor Paul Ong, Director The Ralph & Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies www.sppsr.ucla.edu/lewis/ Lake Arrowhead October 14, 2001

2. Transportation Classes Two Key Policy Issues I. Allocation to Transportation Classes II. Shifting the Boundaries

3. Case Study The impact of welfare reform in Los Angeles. Non-Welfare PoorWelfare Poor 1) Transportation Behavior 2) Transportation Resources 3) Transportation Preference Welfare Reform

4. Table 1 - Comparison of Demographic Characteristics, CTNA Survey and 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS)

5. Table 2 - Comparison of Trip Purpose and Mode, CTNA Survey and 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS)

6. Table 3 - Trips Characteristics by Welfare- to-work Stages

7. Table 4 - Travel Characteristics of CTNA Survey Respondents

8. Table 5 - Modal Choice of CTNA Survey Respondents

9. Table 6 - Transit Problems by Geographic Area, CTNA Respondents Who Used Public Transit Within the Last 6 Months

10. Table 7 - Auto Related Program Preferences by Percent First Choice (Row Percentages Add to 100 Percent, Except When Due to Rounding)

11. I. Car Insurance Car Ownership Employment II. Level of Transit Employment Some Empirical Results Ong & Houston, 2001 Ong, 2001

12. Equity, Fairness & Redistribution Vertical Equity Transit II & IV Auto I & III Horizontal Equity Poor III & IV Rich I & II III IIIIV Targeted versus universal policies