,On the Road: Car Ownership As An Asset-building Strategy for Reducing Transportation Related Barriers to Work

On the Road: Car Ownership As An Asset-building Strategy for Reducing Transportation Related Barriers to Work


 

Publication Date: January 2002

Publisher: National Economic Development and Law Center (U.S.)

Author(s): Bronwyn Mauldin; Carolyn D. Hayden

Research Area: Transportation

Type: Report

Abstract:

This report offers an in-depth study of seven of the most promising car ownership programs developed to solve transportation barriers to work for low-income people. The report recommends best practices in car ownership programs, opportunities for policy changes that could improve mobility and job access for low-income workers and job seekers, suggestions for the role the private sector could play to support car ownership programs, and ideas for next steps to improve practice and policies.