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Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa
Av Winnie V. Mitullah, Marianne Vanderschuren m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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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 research conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Nairobi (Kenya), this book explores these …
Re-thinking Mobility Poverty
Understanding Users' Geographies, Backgrounds and Aptitudes
Av Tobias Kuttler, Massimo Moraglio
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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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 poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages.The debate on …
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South
Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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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 analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for …
Re-thinking Mobility Poverty
Understanding Users' Geographies, Backgrounds and Aptitudes
Av Tobias Kuttler, Massimo Moraglio
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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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 poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages.The debate on …
Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies. This is not to say that history repeats itself, or that every contemporary transport dilemma has an historical counterpart: rather, the …
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South
Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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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 analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for …
Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options
An Agenda for the 21st Century
Av Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, Peter J. McGoldrick
Inbunden, 2002
2504 kr
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In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas. Existing research on transport …
Re-Thinking Mobility
Contemporary Sociology
Inbunden, 2002
2504 kr
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All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to …
Transport Lessons from the Fuel Tax Protests of 2000
Av Kiron Chatterjee, Glenn Lyons
Inbunden, 2002
2504 kr
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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 and debates surrounding the protests, the experience offered the opportunity for longer-term lessons on transport to be …
Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion
Exclusionary Mechanisms in Transport in Urban Scotland
Av Julian Hine, Fiona Mitchell
Inbunden, 2003
2504 kr
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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 mixture of physical barriers, financial constraints, time budgets, access difficulties and psychological aspects such as …
Transport, Demand Management and Social Inclusion
The Need for Ethnic Perspectives
Av Fiona Rajé
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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Social inclusion/exclusion has only recently emerged in transport-related discourse. Despite the apparent absence of a transport policy framework for social inclusion/exclusion, there has been some movement towards a greater understanding of the social aspects of transport in the research sphere. …
Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport
Transatlantic Perspectives
Av Stefan Poppelreuter, Kieran Donaghy
Inbunden, 2005
2578 kr
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Based on the work of the STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) Focus Group 3, this volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport. Theoretical and empirical research from across North America and …
Social Perspectives on Mobility
Av Thyra Uth Thomsen, Lise ewes Nielsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
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Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency. Movement and mobility have become integrated parts of late modern identity and practice, and a state of flux can be sensed everywhere. Bringing together the latest …
Negotiating the Transport System
User Contexts, Experiences and Needs
Av Fiona Rajé
Inbunden, 2007
762 kr
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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 experiences of those using the British transport system. Despite an entitlement to a basic level of mobility, travel …
Ethics of Mobilities
Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment
Av Tore Sager, Sigurd Bergmann
Inbunden, 2008
2504 kr
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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 humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of …
Public Transport and its Users
The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care
Av Hans-Liudger Dienel, Martin Schiefelbusch
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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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 position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public …
Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab
Inbunden, 2010
785 kr
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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 study considers the roles and functions of the taxi from its origins as the first licensed form of public transport, to …
Digital Social Networks and Travel Behaviour in Urban Environments
Av Pnina Plaut, Dalit Shach-Pinsly
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments. Over the past decade, rapid development of ICT has led to extensive social …
Car-dependent Society
A European Perspective
Av Hans Jeekel
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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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 a unique situation in history, but does not get much attention; car use is seen as just a normal situation. The …
Re-Thinking Mobility
Contemporary Sociology
Häftad, 2016
907 kr
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All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to …
Ethics of Mobilities
Rethinking Place, Exclusion, Freedom and Environment
Av Tore Sager, Sigurd Bergmann
Häftad, 2016
907 kr
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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 humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of …
Transport, Demand Management and Social Inclusion
The Need for Ethnic Perspectives
Av Fiona Rajé
Häftad, 2017
849 kr
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Social inclusion/exclusion has only recently emerged in transport-related discourse. Despite the apparent absence of a transport policy framework for social inclusion/exclusion, there has been some movement towards a greater understanding of the social aspects of transport in the research sphere. …
Transport Lessons from the Fuel Tax Protests of 2000
Av Kiron Chatterjee, Glenn Lyons
Häftad, 2017
747 kr
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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 and debates surrounding the protests, the experience offered the opportunity for longer-term lessons on transport to be …
Social Perspectives on Mobility
Av Thyra Uth Thomsen, Lise ewes Nielsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency. Movement and mobility have become integrated parts of late modern identity and practice, and a state of flux can be sensed everywhere. Bringing together the latest …
Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options
An Agenda for the 21st Century
Av Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, Peter J. McGoldrick
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas. Existing research on transport …
Negotiating the Transport System
User Contexts, Experiences and Needs
Av Fiona Rajé
Häftad, 2016
413 kr
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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 experiences of those using the British transport system. Despite an entitlement to a basic level of mobility, travel …
Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport
Transatlantic Perspectives
Av Stefan Poppelreuter, Kieran Donaghy
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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Based on the work of the STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) Focus Group 3, this volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport. Theoretical and empirical research from across North America and …
Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society
Häftad, 2016
1009 kr
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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 extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer …
Public Transport and its Users
The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care
Av Hans-Liudger Dienel, Martin Schiefelbusch
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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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 position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public …
Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab
Häftad, 2016
254 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 study considers the roles and functions of the taxi from its origins as the first licensed form of public transport, to …
