Social exclusion, location and transport disadvantage amongst non-driving seniors in a Melbourne municipality, Australia

Engels, Benno; Liu, Gangjun

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.03.007

Cited by 112 publications

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“…Generally, low-quality and unreliable transit systems are unlikely to satisfy the complex needs of different clusters of senior adults (Davey, 2007;Engels and Liu, 2011;Hildebrand, 2003;Kostyniuk and Shope, 2003;Risser et al, 2010). In recent years, demand-responsive transportation and car-sharing services have provided a middle ground between owning a car and being entirely carless.…”

Section: Built Environment Factorsmentioning

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Socio-demographic and built environment determinants of car use among older adults in Iran

Soltani

Pojani

Askari

et al. 2018

Journal of Transport Geography

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Internationally, an age-friendly built environment, including safe, affordable, and convenient transportation, has been identified as crucial in enhancing the quality of life for increasingly large numbers of elderly people. This study presents data on the urban travel and mobility patterns of older adults in Shiraz, Iran -a country where the population is ageing faster than the average of western societies. The relationship between car use and sociodemographic and built environment variables is investigated through Ordinary Least Squares and Geographically Weighted Regression models. These models show that the main determinants of car use among older adults are: employment status; household size; car ownership rate; trip purpose; property prices; and mixed land-uses. Also, the study reveals that car dependency is significant and more pronounced among wealthier individuals, who tend to be clustered in the northern section of the city. The population density and road network design characteristics do not affect car use among older adults, while a mix of land-uses tends to attenuate car dependency. Gender gaps in car use are much wider than in the West, and some level of spatial mismatch between travel needs and car access is observed in the southern section of the city. Clearly, Iranian cities must move away from the current car-centric development model.

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Section: Built Environment Factorsmentioning

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Socio-demographic and built environment determinants of car use among older adults in Iran

Soltani

Pojani

Askari

et al. 2018

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…With the alienation of younger segments of the population from traditional cultures of automobility, and the increasing inability of older segments of the population to participate due to physiological or economic reasons (Engels and Liu, 2011), there would appear to be substantive grounds to expect automobility to have peaked in many countries. However, we argue (along with Cohen, 2012) that such an analysis may be misplaced due to the shift in automobility culture from individualism and freedom to dynamic seclusion in a securitised state (Wood, 2009) made possible at the individual level by the physical and psychological comfort offered by contemporary cars.…”

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From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning’: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility

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Xenias

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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“…These are women, elderly, children and youths under 18, people with special needs, etc. (Hine & Mitchell 2003;Engels & Liu 2011;Shergold & Parkhurst 2012;Mackett & Thoreau 2015). In their case, personal mobility is the lowest (according to the Fig.…”

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Social and transport exclusion

Jaroš¹

2017

Geogr. Pol.

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The presented article focuses on the relationship between social exclusion and the transport geographical characteristics which are considered as instrumental in the development of social exclusion, and also as a negative feature that can even deepen the exclusion. In the first part, the author generally defines and examines the concept of social exclusion as a selectively operating process of differentiation, the way it has been perceived over time and its individual aspects with an emphasis on the spatial dimension. The second part of the article is devoted to the conditional relationship between transportation and social exclusion. Besides the description of this process of exclusion, which is transport related, there is a discussion of the role of transport (in)accessibility and characteristics of personal mobility as a crucial factors which cause or intensify the exclusion. On the other hand it also offers a chance to reintegrate individuals into society.

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Social exclusion, location and transport disadvantage amongst non-driving seniors in a Melbourne municipality, Australia

Cited by 112 publications

References 22 publications

Socio-demographic and built environment determinants of car use among older adults in Iran

Socio-demographic and built environment determinants of car use among older adults in Iran

From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning’: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility

Social and transport exclusion

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