Qualification and Quantification of Fairness for Sustainable Mobility Policies

The adoption of new mobility technologies on a large-scale plays a crucial role to promote a green transition in the mobility field. Nonetheless, the acceptance of new mobility solutions implies radical changes in the everyday lives of individuals and, thus, it can be hampered by many different factors besides transport habits, such as socio-economic individual features. For this reason, it is essential to design human-centered policies directly addressing such barriers, avoiding the unwanted effect of amplifying inequalities at the edges of society. To this end, we propose a data-driven approach to embed socio-economic factors in the design of new mobility strategies that quantitatively account for fairness in a control-oriented and dynamic fashion. The formalization (and the inclusion in the approach) of the concepts of doxastic equality and equity allows us to mitigate epistemic exclusions, assessing system fairness. Thus, by combining tools from the control framework with those of philosophy, our approach offers an actionable tool for the support of the design of fair policies to foster the adoption of sustainable mobility habits.