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.
Social Perspectives on Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Thyra Uth Thomsen, Lise Drewes Nielsen, Henrik Gudmundsson
October 19, 2016
Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency. Movement and mobility have become integrated parts of late modern identity and practice, and a state of flux can be sensed everywhere. Bringing together the latest...
The Car-dependent Society: A European Perspective
1st Edition
By Hans Jeekel
September 30, 2016
Cars are essential in modern Western societies. Some even say that our modern lifestyles would have been impossible without cars. The dependency of Western societies on our cars is a unique situation in history, but does not get much attention; car use is seen as just a normal situation. The ...
The Ethics of Mobilities: Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Sigurd Bergmann, Tore Sager
September 12, 2016
With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of ...
Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society
1st Edition
By John Urry, Margaret Grieco
September 09, 2016
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer ...
Public Transport and its Users: The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care
1st Edition
By Hans-Liudger Dienel, Martin Schiefelbusch
September 06, 2016
Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. However, the passenger's position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public ...
Re-Thinking Mobility: Contemporary Sociology
1st Edition
By Vincent Kaufmann
August 26, 2016
All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to ...