Mobility and transport potential of elderly in differently accessible rural areas

Plazinić, Biljana Ranković; Jovic, Jadranka J.

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.03.016

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“…There is a need for a commitment regarding three major policy areas: the provision of mobility options, legislative and institutional approaches, and building accessible mobility environments [12]. Among the abovementioned policy areas, providing mobility options and ensuring accessible mobility environments have been intensively researched (e.g., [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]). While the provision of mobility options and building accessible mobility environments have been well-investigated and documented in the transport policy area, the role of legislative and institutional approaches in transport provision is not clear.…”

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Transport and Mobility Needs for an Ageing Society from a Policy Perspective: Review and Implications

Lin

Cui

2021

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The world population is ageing, and many countries in the world are confronted by significant challenges in adapting their health and social systems to meet the requirements of this demographic change. It is well-accepted that mobility is often closely linked to a person’s independence, wellbeing and quality of life. Interest has increased across the world with regard to how the mobility needs of an ageing society can be addressed, since an ageing population is confronting nations across the globe and poses long-term challenges on a nation’s many aspects, including transport. Questions of how future policies can better respond to the mobility needs of an ageing population and how these policies can be delivered have emerged as major concerns for transport planners, operators and decision-makers. This review explores the way in which implemented policies have addressed the mobility needs of an ageing society, focusing on the provision of accessible, safe and affordable transport. More specifically, the paper reviews legislative and institutional approaches of addressing the mobility needs of an ageing population. The paper discusses the outcomes of these approaches and the remaining challenges in this policy area that relate to elderly people’s mobility and provides future research directions. Based on the discussion, clear conclusions about the effectiveness of particular policies are difficult to make. Alternative approaches (e.g., technological innovations) need to be considered in addressing older people’s mobility needs.

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Transport and Mobility Needs for an Ageing Society from a Policy Perspective: Review and Implications

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2021

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“…Rural and peripheral areas suffer from accessibility and mobility problems that challenge their livability and development potential (Vitale Brovarone 2022). The problem of transport accessibility concerns especially seniors (Ahern and Hine 2012;Plazinić and Jović 2018). In order to address these challenges, the spatial, social, cultural and economic components of accessibility need to be recognized and addressed with comprehensive actions that involve actors from different sectors at different scales (Atasoy et al 2015;Clotteau 2014).…”

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Tourism Economics

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“…Although the concept of accessibility has acquired numerous meanings in many fields during the century of its evolution, it is typically defined as the ease with which activities at one place might be reached from another via a specific travel mode or available modes (such as walk, bus, rail, bike or car). Following the definition, accessibility has been used to evaluate the ease, quality and extent of people to reach potential opportunities, facilities or services in many studies (Ariza-Álvarez et al, 2021; Cheng et al, 2020; Ranković Plazinić and Jović, 2018; Shi et al, 2020). It also helps to unravel the complicated relationships between land use, transport and human activities in many research fields (Cheng et al, 2020) and can reflect spatial equity (Guo et al, 2020).…”

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Understanding evolution process of community-embedded elderly care facilities with big data: A spatiotemporal analytical framework

Liu

Zhao

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The severe population ageing has rapidly increased the demand for urban elderly care services in most countries. As a novel urban elderly care mode, community-embedded elderly care facilities integrate various functions and allow older urban adults to enjoy comprehensive care services in a familiar environment at an acceptable cost. Therefore, it is widely recognised as an effective way to resolve the contradiction between the increasing demand and limited supply capacity of elderly care services in large cities. However, spatial analysis of elderly care facilities in previous studies were focused on static characters, ignoring the evolution process. The traditional static analysis methods might be one-sided for the spatial analysis of community-embedded elderly care facilities, considering their highly dynamic development. This study considers Beijing as a case study and establishes a novel spatiotemporal analytical framework, augmented by big data, to analyse the spatial distribution of the local community-embedded elderly care facilities (elderly stations) from a dynamic view. The multi-source data regarding elderly stations, the elderly population and basic geographic information of Beijing were extracted and integrated into the analysis. On this basis, the proposed framework was applied to examine the distribution tendency, evolution trend and accessibility of elderly stations from 2017 to 2020. The results reveal a significant cluster development characteristic of elderly stations. Although the density of elderly stations in the downtown area is much higher than that in the urban periphery, the elderly stations might still be unable to satisfy the enormous elderly care demand in Xicheng and Dongcheng districts. Moreover, the imbalance between the urban centre and peripheries and the spatial mismatch between the elderly stations and population were identified. The research output could support the planning practice of elderly stations for relevant departments.

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Mobility and transport potential of elderly in differently accessible rural areas

Cited by 57 publications

References 31 publications

Transport and Mobility Needs for an Ageing Society from a Policy Perspective: Review and Implications

Transport and Mobility Needs for an Ageing Society from a Policy Perspective: Review and Implications

Tourism Economics

Understanding evolution process of community-embedded elderly care facilities with big data: A spatiotemporal analytical framework

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