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Re-thinking Mobility Poverty
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 …
Transport Lessons from the Fuel Tax Protests of 2000
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 …
Public Transport and its Users
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 …
Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa
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 …
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South
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 …
The Mobilities Paradigm
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 …
Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab
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 …
The Ethics of Mobilities
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 …
Negotiating the Transport System
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 …
The Car-dependent Society
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 …
Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion
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 …
Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society
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 …