The paper builds on the transport-related social exclusion (TRSE) literature and investigates how the insights provided by the Capability Approach can help to inform inclusive transport planning. To address the literature lack of conceptual clarity, we provided a framework that considers how individuals may be prevented from travelling and accessing valued opportunities and how this may lead to TRSE. Ten different dimensions of TRSE that individuals may experience are suggested. Although some dimensions were already proposed in past work, we contributed to this framework by expanding their scope and proposing a new dimension. The paper concludes that policies aimed at reducing TRSE should be concerned with increasing the capabilities of those in accessibility poverty to a sufficient level that enables individuals’ participation in key opportunities of the society. We identified that not every accessibility measure is suitable for assessing TRSE, and the selection of measures must pay attention to their alignment with the idea of accessibility as a human capability. We recommend that conducting an aggregated analysis may be helpful to identify a suitable accessibility measure and to identify regions at risk of TRSE; however, to have a deep understanding of an individual’s TRSE risk factors, a bottom-up analysis is necessary.

This article focuses on the performance attributes congestion and vulnerability, proposing a conceptual framework based on recent research. We present a case study that allows observing the differences obtained in the ranking of importance of the links of a road network according to each of the two attributes. The differences observed suggest that the exclusive use of congestion indicators to determine performance bottlenecks can lead to misleading solutions

Based on an extensive literature review, this article identifies the attributes that define the pedestrians quality of service, and based on interviews conducted with spectators at the three matches of the FIFA Confederations Cup that were played in June 2013 at Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro, characterizes and identifies the most important attributes associated with the choice of travel on foot. These results contribute to the understanding of pedestrian behaviour at major sporting events–with the World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games 2016 already in mind. The attributes that best define the pedestrian quality of service are accessibility, comfort, reliability, convenience, security, safety and sociability. In the case of Maracanã, the aspects most emphasized by the respondents interviewed were related to accessibility: rapidity, proximity and ease. However, we found that the perceived walking times–for all of the interviewed people–were shorter than the actual trip times. The stadium's location and the characteristics of the social and built environments are conditions that favour travel on foot and perceived proximity. These factors can be enhanced by good transportation and urban planning policies. However, pedestrians that make trips longer than 30minutes are attracted to the use of motorized modes, unless certain restrictions to these modes are present