Transport and social exclusion in London

Discourses of Mobility: Institutions, Everyday Lives and Embodiment

“…These findings to a large extent reflect existing literature on mobile justice; for example, literature that emphasises the more material aspects of mobility justice (Church, Frost, and Sullivan 2000;Hine 2008) as well as wider social aspects of 'network capital' (Urry 2007) and contributions to thinking that take into account notions of immobility and potential mobility (Kaufman 2002;Kellerman 2012). In our daily mobilities we develop embodied dispositions and cycles of repetition, which often challenge institutional discourses because they emerge from the ground up.…”

“…Issues of mobility justice are often underplayed in relation to technocratic and rights discourses that produce projects such as HS2 even though a significant number of those living alongside the proposed HS2 rail link will not be able to afford to use it. Transport policy in the UK, particularly on a national scale, did not significantly acknowledge mobility injustice until the late 1990s (Church, Frost, and Sullivan 2000) with the subsequent publication of the Social Exclusion Unit's (2003) seminal report linking mobility and social exclusion. There had been a number of attempts to recognise the potential mobility exclusion of particular social groups particularly by gender and disability (DETR 1998) and indeed the agenda gathered momentum through the 2000s (DfT 2005(DfT , 2006.…”

Study of the Impact of a High-Speed Railway Opening on China’s Accessibility Pattern and Spatial Equality

“…This study selects 13 social demand indicators from the three aspects of population, economy, and society to build a social demand indicator system (Table 1). Finally, the Global Principal Component Analysis (GPCA) is used to calculate the social demand index of each city [43,65]. …”

“…With the rapid development of society and improvements in living standards, the social demand indicator of each city has become different. Social indicators depend, to some extent, on the economy, population, and other indicators [43,44]. Therefore, the social indicator and the spatial distribution of accessibility illustrate the spatial equality problem [45,46].…”

Perspectives for Integrating Housing Location Considerations and Transport Planning as a Means to Face Social Exclusion in Indian Cities

“…Transport-related exclusion occurs when social and economic disadvantages overlap with insufficient access to transportation (Lucas, 2012). Several forms of exclusion are distinguished: physical and geographical exclusion, exclusion from facilities, economic exclusion, time-based exclusion, fear-based exclusion, and spatial exclusion (Church et al, 2000, Lucas, 2012. Especially women face limitations in their spatial practices and access to transportation caused by the combination of productive and reproductive tasks, geographic distances, cultural norms concerning the use of certain modes of transportation, safety concerns, costs, and gendered relations within the household (Anand and Tiwari, 2006;Astrop et al, 1996;Kwan, 2002;Lucas, 2011;Venter et al, 2007).…”