THE PLANNING OF THE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF WELL-BEING: APPLING AMARTYA SEN'S CAPABILITY APPROACH

Community transports are strongly required, to improve well-being of residents by enhancing mobility of residents, especially elderly people under poor public transport service. But in evaluating community transport, the viewpoint of to improve well-being has been rarely considered. In this paper evaluation is done according to the one of most remarkable theory of evaluating improvement of the well-being, called "Capability Approach" of Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize winner for economic, 1998). In this approach it is evaluated by the width of options of life. By being possible going out, community transport expands the capability. It measures whether capability is improving or not and equally or not.