Towards addressing transportation planning’s contradictions: The unified theory for transportation planning based on the capabilities approach

This article proposes a unified theory for transportation planning based on the capabilities approach which helps reconcile three key contradictions with which transportation planning has not sufficiently grappled. Those contradictions include the following. First, should transportation planners focus on opportunities or outcomes? Second, is travel good or bad? Third, how can transportation deliver value in a polyrational world which faces …