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Reframing data-driven decision framing as academic experts

In: A Research Agenda for Transport Equity and Mobility Justice

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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.

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  • Kate Lowe, 2024. "Reframing data-driven decision framing as academic experts," Chapters, in: Julie Cidell (ed.), A Research Agenda for Transport Equity and Mobility Justice, chapter 13, pages 189-200, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20975_13
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