Community transport, social capital and social exclusion in rural areas

Gray, David; Shaw, Jonathan; Farrington, John

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00662.x

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“…Dies wurde wiederholt für ländliche Regionen festgestellt, wo der öffentliche Verkehr aufgrund mangelnder Bevölkerungsdichte nicht mehr adäquat betrieben werden kann. Speziell die nichtmotorisierte Bevölkerung oder aber bestimmte Gruppen (Alte, Personen ohne Fahrerlaubnis beziehungsweise ohne Pkw) rücken hier ins Zentrum der Diskussion (Gray et al 2006, Nutley 1996. Dieses Problem dürfte sich in naher Zukunft durch den demografi schen Wandel verschärfen, denn der damit einhergehende Bevölkerungsrückgang erschwert die Vorhaltung von Infrastrukturen und Dienstleistungen (beziehungsweise macht diese sehr teuer).…”

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Mobilität, Erreichbarkeit und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe: Die Rolle von strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen und subjektiven Präferenzen

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Scheiner²

2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Summary: The paper discusses the questions (1) to which extent there is evidence for social exclusion or limited chances for social participation in daily travel and residential location choice, and (2) which role is played by subjective residential location and accessibility preferences as well as lifestyles in this context. We draw from two empirical studies. Firstly, we investigate social and spatial correlates of daily travel behaviour (more specifi cally, distance and travel time budget), based on nation-wide micro data. Secondly, we focus on individual perceptions, preferences and lifestyles underlying residential location choice in the region of Cologne. The results suggest considerable social and spatial differences both in residential choice and daily travel. For the former, preferences, lifestyles and availability of transport modes play a signifi cant role as well. The evidence suggesting an interpretation in terms of social exclusion is only moderate. The paper closes with a discussion of policy and planning recommendations. Terms of use: Documents inEinleitung 1

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Mobilität, Erreichbarkeit und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe: Die Rolle von strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen und subjektiven Präferenzen

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2010

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“…Typical indicators of social capital include participation in social organisations such as political parties, clubs, trade union, church, women's organisations, membership in organisations, attendance in meetings, and so on [6,55]. Therefore, a significant overlap can be identified between the measures of social exclusion and social capital using participation as an indicator.…”

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Measures of Transport-Related Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the Literature

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Quantitative measures of transport disadvantage are reviewed in this paper from the perspective of their effectiveness to investigate social exclusion. The effectiveness is assessed using criteria derived through a review of the concepts of transport disadvantage and social exclusion and their operationalisation. The specified criteria are related to issues of spatial (e.g., urban accessibility, and public transport accessibility), temporal (e.g., public transport availability, and facility opening hours), and social attributes of travel and activity participation (e.g., personal mobility, and disability). Four groups of transport disadvantage measures are identified and evaluated. These include deprivation-based measures, mobility-based measures, accessibility-based measures, and activity-based measures. The review suggests that although the first three categories of measures have traditionally been used to identify transport disadvantage, they do not satisfy issues surrounding activity participation-the key outcome of social exclusion. The activity space concept is a way in which these issues can be incorporated, as it is a measure of the outcomes of activity participation and their associated travel to that activity. Participation in an activity means that an individual has overcome the spatial, temporal and social barriers of travel for that activity. The research using the activity space concept has, however, inadequately identified individual travel and activity participation. This has been due to a separate application of a range of different indicators to assess activity space size. These indicators are by their nature multidimensional-e.g., area visited, distance travelled, and number of activity sites visited. Although each indicator represents a specific qualitative/quantitative aspect of travel and activity participation, researchers have treated these indicators in an isolated manner to identify transport disadvantage and consequently transport-related social exclusion. This paper identifies the weaknesses and strengths associated with these measures; and methods are directed to overcome the limitations.

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“…Sustaining local civic activities can be challenging in neighborhoods with highly mobile inhabitants who lack attachments to their places of residence (Gray et al 2006). The concern has been raised that new transportation and communication technologies will destroy the ''social capital'' of (geographically defined) communities by decreasing faceto-face socialization with neighbors (Putnam 2000;Turkle 2011).…”

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The role of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information in Tanggamus Regency, Indonesia

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Limited access to agricultural information constrains the well-being of farmers in developing countries and leads to environmental deterioration. Although new information-communication technologies (ICTs) are expected to alleviate this problem, the importance of physical mobility is rarely considered. This study explores the roles of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information within and between Indonesian farming communities. In 2012, we surveyed 315 household heads from 16 coffee and cocoa farming groups in Sumatra. The respondents identified 1575 sources from which they obtained agricultural information, the exact location of the sources, and the mode of contact. In 2013, we followed up with in-depth interviews of 20 farmers to obtain a qualitative description of their agricultural information-seeking behavior. Although 75 % of respondents had a mobile phone, the main mode of information sharing was face-to-face meetings for 97 % of the elicited relationships. Mobile phones were used to communicate with people living at the edge of the regular physical mobility radius enabled by motorbikes (approximately 10 km). A hierarchical logit model was applied to examine the implications of the respondents' tendency to use motorized transport vis-à-vis walking for information gathering. Respondents with a higher general preference for faster transport tended to have more extensive access to information from other communities. However, we also find weak evidence that individual motorized transport might decrease internal social contact and information exchange inside these communities. The policy implication for rural development in less-industrialized countries is that providing ICTs without increasing the inhabitants' mobility through appropriate means may not significantly improve the inhabitants' access to important information and the diffusion of successful agricultural practices.

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Community transport, social capital and social exclusion in rural areas

Cited by 142 publications

References 24 publications

Mobilität, Erreichbarkeit und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe: Die Rolle von strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen und subjektiven Präferenzen

Mobilität, Erreichbarkeit und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe: Die Rolle von strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen und subjektiven Präferenzen

Measures of Transport-Related Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the Literature

The role of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information in Tanggamus Regency, Indonesia

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