Inclusive Transport: Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages

Inclusive Transport: Social Equity for the Disadvantaged offers profound and multifaceted insights into transportation and social equity, guiding transportation and urban studies researchers, planners, and policy makers in evaluating potential solutions to this complex issue. It looks into discrimination and its societal consequences, providing a needed perspective on who is left out of transportation planning, and why.

Part 1 explores the main problems to the transportation disadvantaged; accessibility and affordability. It looks at the consequences of non-accessibility, the problems non-car owners face, and the interplay between housing and transportation. Part 2 examines how current transportation policies have developed over time, looking closely at infrastructures, traffic safety, noise and air quality, and urban mobility.

Part 3 focuses on current transportation policies that reduce transportation disadvantages, such as fuel measures and subsidized car purchases, as well as urban measures on walking and cycling that make cities friendly for all citizens. The book concludes in Part 4 with a look at future challenges to developing passenger and freight mobility policies, focusing on sustainability challenges, people’s behaviors and emotions, and on creating more just and equitable mobility.

Synthesizes academic research on transport disadvantaged, linking the research with current mobility policies and practicesAnalyzes the possibilities and pitfalls of new mobilities--such as automated driving, car sharing, and individualized public transport--to solve transport disadvantagesExtensive usage of data, figures, and examples from around the world including Civitas, Polis, and other urban mobility plans and policies

Part 1: FIGHTING INVOLUNTARY TRANSPORT DISADVANTAGES 1. Setting The Scene: A World Of Transport Disadvantages 2. Transport Disadvantage In Practice; Geographical Perspectives 3. Transport Disadvantages: Social And Societal Perspectives

Part 2: TOWARDS INCLUSIVE TRANSPORT 4. A Marginal Issue? An Analysis Of The Lack Of Attention To Involuntary Transport 5. Fighting Involuntary Transport Disadvantages; The Pragmatic Solutions 6. Towards Inclusive Transport; The Radical Approach