Transport and Society: Transport and Society
About the Book Series
This series focuses on the impact of transport planning policy and implementation on the wider society and on the participation of the users. It discusses issues such as: gender and public transport, travel for the elderly and disabled, transport boycotts and the civil rights movement etc. Interdisciplinary in scope, linking transport studies with sociology, social welfare, cultural studies and psychology.
Re-thinking Mobility Poverty: Understanding Users' Geographies, Backgrounds and Aptitudes
1st Edition
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By Tobias Kuttler, Massimo Moraglio
May 31, 2023
This book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of ‘transport poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages. The debate on ...
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South: Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics
1st Edition
By Malve Jacobsen
January 09, 2023
This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades. It analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for...
Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa
1st Edition
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By Winnie V. Mitullah, Marianne Vanderschuren, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
February 07, 2019
What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Nairobi (Kenya), this book explores these ...
Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture
1st Edition
By Glen Norcliffe
February 12, 2018
Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, ...
The Mobilities Paradigm: Discourses and Ideologies
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By Marcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid, Christophe Mincke
February 06, 2018
Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance of mobilities in all parts of the social does not only happen as observable practices in the material...
Transport Lessons from the Fuel Tax Protests of 2000
1st Edition
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By Glenn Lyons, Kiron Chatterjee
May 11, 2017
The UK fuel tax protests of September 2000 generated considerable debate about fuel prices and taxation and put transport in the media spotlight. Away from the immediate events and debates surrounding the protests, the experience offered the opportunity for longer-term lessons on transport to be ...
Transport, Demand Management and Social Inclusion: The Need for Ethnic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Fiona Rajé
March 06, 2017
Social inclusion/exclusion has only recently emerged in transport-related discourse. Despite the apparent absence of a transport policy framework for social inclusion/exclusion, there has been some movement towards a greater understanding of the social aspects of transport in the research sphere. ...
Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab
1st Edition
By James Cooper, Ray Mundy
November 16, 2016
The taxicab makes a significant contribution to the accessibility of a city, and provides a wide range of services across many different social groups and urban environments. This study considers the roles and functions of the taxi from its origins as the first licensed form of public transport, to...
Negotiating the Transport System: User Contexts, Experiences and Needs
1st Edition
By Fiona Rajé
November 15, 2016
By combining focus groups and interviews with innovative research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system. Despite an entitlement to a basic level of mobility, travel ...
Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Kieran Donaghy, Stefan Poppelreuter
November 15, 2016
Based on the work of the STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) Focus Group 3, this volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport. Theoretical and empirical research from across North America and ...
Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options: An Agenda for the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, Peter J. McGoldrick
November 10, 2016
In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas. Existing research on transport ...
Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion: Exclusionary Mechanisms in Transport in Urban Scotland
1st Edition
By Julian Hine, Fiona Mitchell
November 10, 2016
There is currently much interest in the role that transport plays in promoting, or alleviating 'social exclusion'. Exclusionary processes are, of course, multi-dimensional and a mixture of physical barriers, financial constraints, time budgets, access difficulties and psychological aspects such as...