Resolving Mobility Constraints Impeding Rural Seniors' Access to Regionalized Services

Ryser, Laura; Halseth, Greg

doi:10.1080/08959420.2012.683329

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“…Yet, this literature focuses on the supply side and institutional arrangements and offers little insight into the extent to which community transport reduces transport disadvantage and social exclusion or helps to enact social stratifications. Ryser and Halseth's (2012) analysis of regional transport services for older adults in northern British Columbia, Canada provides circumstantial evidence for the assertion that the government transfers responsibility for transport provision to older people at risk of social exclusion onto volunteer organisations harnessing communities' social capital. Another example of a grassroots initiative that has attracted considerable attention in the transport-related literature is the walking school bus (WSB) whereby elementary school children walk to school under adult supervision (e.g.…”

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“…Relevant to 2b and 2c is the modest literature on community transport -run by volunteers rather than government, typically in rural areas -in the UK and paratransit services in the USA (Nutley 1988(Nutley , 2001Cervero, 1997;Ryser and Halseth 2012). Yet, this literature focuses on the supply side and institutional arrangements and offers little insight into the extent to which community transport reduces transport disadvantage and social exclusion or helps to enact social stratifications.…”

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Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital

Schwanen

Lucas

Akyelken

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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This paper provides a critical review of the progress in understanding the linkages between transport disadvantage and social exclusion. It follows earlier work in proposing social capital as a concept that mediates those linkages but argues that transport researchers must not confine themselves to conceptualisations of social capital as predominantly benign and capable of reducing transport disadvantage and social exclusion. A range of hypothetical pathways is discussed, highlighting the Janus-faced character of social capital as a medium for both the effectuation of progressive social change and the perpetuation and creation of social inequalities. An analysis is provided of the extent to which the recent transport-related literature supports or rejects the hypothesised pathways, and key avenues for future research are identified.Key words: social exclusion, transport disadvantage, social capital, literature review, social network 1 1| IntroductionThere is a long tradition in transport studies, urban studies and human geography of research that examines the connections of mobility with social inequality and deprivation (Kain, 1968;Wachs and Kumagai, 1973;Hanson and Hanson, 1980;Kwan, 1999;Neutens et al., 2010), and a range of papers on those connections have recently been published in TransportationResearch Part A (Stanley et al., 2011;Martens et al., 2012;Mullen et al., 2014). Within that tradition researchers have suggested direct causal links between transport and social exclusion (Church et al., 2000;Hine and Mitchell, 2001;Lucas et al., 2001;Kenyon et al., 2002; Lucas, 2004Lucas, , 2012Cass et al., 2005;Gray et al., 2006;Preston and Rajé, 2007;Stanley et al., 2011). Scholarship on these links flourished in the early 21 st century, in part because of the interest the Labour government under Tony Blair took in reducing social exclusion in the UK. Yet, this flourishing also reflects more general concerns over the effects of neoliberal urban and transport policies on the less privileged segments of urban and rural populations in the UK and elsewhere.The intimate connections of academic work on mobility and exclusion with the realms of policy-making and -less frequently -grassroots activism imply that research on transport and social exclusion ticks many of the 'impact' and 'knowledge valorisation' boxes that are increasingly important in research evaluations. However, the flipside of this orientation on policy and practice is that theoretical development has not always been the highest priority among researchers. Past studies have significantly expanded our understanding of concepts, such as mobility-related exclusion (Kenyon et al., 2002), access (Cass et al., 2005 or network capital (Urry, 2007(Urry, , 2012, but research has to a considerable degree progressed through cumulative broadening of empirical research.2 Therefore, the current paper draws upon various theoretical perspectives on social capital and explores how they can strengthen the theoretical basis of research about transport and social ...

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Section: 3| Starting From Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: 3| Starting From Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital

Schwanen

Lucas

Akyelken

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

172

117

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“…From the perspective of the transportation system, population ageing may exert an impact both on its performance and on its further development (Coughlin & Tompkins, 2009;Ryser & Halseth, 2012). Mobility for the elders is most likely no less significant than that of their younger and economically active counterparts (van den Berg, Arentze, & Timmermans, 2011), and increasing travel demand for senior citizens have already been forecasted (Coughlin & Lacombe, 1997).…”

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Economic growth and urban metamorphosis: A quarter century of transformations within the metropolitan area of Bucharest

Toşa

Mitrea

Sato

et al. 2018

JTLU

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This paper concentrates explicitly on examining the structural and functional transformations occurring within the metropolitan area of Bucharest, resulting from sustained economic growth during the past quarter century, by conducting a time analysis, spanning the entire period since the fall of the communist regime in late 1989.Cities in developed countries of Western Europe and Asia experienced rapid economic growth during the second half of the 20th century and exhibited novel patterns of evolution in terms of urban form and associated functional characteristics. Lately, these patterns have become manifest in Bucharest as well. However, transformations in human, social, residential, and transportation supply capital are difficult to observe directly. Hence, our methodology concentrates on studying interactions between several proxies connected to economic development within the metropolitan area of Bucharest. This paper should be read as an exploratory study that buttresses the assumption that improved economic well-being, when accompanied by the transition between a centrally planned economy to a market economy, increases motorization rates, while at the same time triggering a sharp decline in the use of public transport and contributing to aggressive urban sprawl processes. Moreover, hopefully it will guide future research dedicated to forecasting urban expansion paths and their determinants. Hopefully, it also informs policy design intended to promote sustainable urban mobility and accessibility.

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“…Similarly, the size and location of communities are likely to be important. In this respect, research has documented the challenges that rural communities in Canada and elsewhere experience, such as limited infrastructure and transportation options, which create problems for older adults' mobility (Ryser and Halseth 2012) and social participation (Ford 2008), fewer social and health services (Hanlon and Halseth 2005; Hanlon et al 2007; Winterton and Warburton 2011), and difficulties in attracting and retaining health-care providers (Wilson et al 2009). Thus larger, more urban communities may be able to accommodate the needs of seniors more readily and may more easily become age-friendly than smaller, rural communities.…”

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How ‘age-friendly’ are rural communities and what community characteristics are related to age-friendliness? The case of rural Manitoba, Canada

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Since the World Health Organization introduced the concept of ‘age-friendly’ communities in 2006, there has been rapidly growing interest in making communities more age-friendly on the part of policy makers world-wide. There is a paucity of research to date, however, that has examined age-friendliness in diverse communities, particularly in rural communities. The main objective of the study reported in this paper was to examine whether age-friendliness varies across community characteristics, such as a population size. The study was based on surveys administered in 56 communities throughout Manitoba, a mid-Western Canadian province, in the context of a needs assessment process for communities that are part of the Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative. A total of 1,373 individuals completed a survey developed to measure age-friendliness. Domains included the physical environment; housing options; the social environment; opportunities for participation; community supports and health-care services; transportation options; and communication and information. Community characteristics were derived from census data. Multi-level regression analysis indicated that the higher the percentage of residents aged 65 or older, the higher the ratings of age-friendliness overall and, specifically, ratings of the social environment, opportunities for participation, and communication and information. Moreover, small communities located within a census metropolitan area and remote communities in the far north of the province emerged as having the lowest age-friendliness ratings. These findings suggest that communities are generally responsive to the needs of their older residents. That different results were obtained for the various age-friendly domains underscores the importance of considering age-friendliness in a holistic way and measuring it in terms of a range of community features. Our study further highlights the importance of differentiating between degrees of rurality, as different patterns emerged for communities of different sizes and proximity to a larger urban centre.

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Resolving Mobility Constraints Impeding Rural Seniors' Access to Regionalized Services

Cited by 40 publications

References 24 publications

Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital

Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital

Economic growth and urban metamorphosis: A quarter century of transformations within the metropolitan area of Bucharest

How ‘age-friendly’ are rural communities and what community characteristics are related to age-friendliness? The case of rural Manitoba, Canada

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