The Lived Experience of Transport Structure: An Exploration of Transport's Role in People's Lives

Rajé, Fiona

doi:10.1080/17450100601106260

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“…Bissell (2014) captures the importance of investigating these spaces of mobility as: we need to capture a sense of these slow creep transformations that push at the limits of the myriad ways in which the everyday is held consistent, comfortable and constant. (Bissell 2014, 193) Demands for consistent, comfortable and constant movement experiences are particularly evident in the provision of public transport (Bissell 2014;Rajé 2007). Uber taxis, timetable smartphone apps and quiet carriages alike could all be seen as reflections of the changing demands passengers have of public transport systems.…”

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‘Super simple stuff?’: crafting quiet in trains between Newcastle and Sydney

2016

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The demands passengers place on contemporary public transport systems are increasingly focused on providing a safe, comfortable and reliable transport experience. One expression of these demands is the recent introduction of designated quiet carriages to trains. The experience of travelling in these spaces has been given little academic scrutiny. Using a case study of the commuting experience between Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, this paper investigates the practices, relations and affective atmospheres of quiet carriages. The paper argues that passengers on trains come together to craft quiet through interactions between human and material actors. This crafting of quiet results in noticeably different quiet atmospheres at different times of day and in different parts of the journey. Drawing on participant observation including an auto-ethnographic account of travelling in a quiet carriage, the paper distinguishes between four types of quiet crafted by the passenger collective -sleepy and comfortable quiet, busy quiet, tense quiet and spooky quiet. These four types of quiet play upon the body with different intensities and some have stronger affects that linger after the completion of the journey.

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‘Super simple stuff?’: crafting quiet in trains between Newcastle and Sydney

2016

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“…Few studies that have not already been discussed above can be identified that provide support for the supposed pathway. Some previously discussed studies (Rajé, 2007;Ziegler and Schwanen, 2011;McQuoid and Dijst, 2012;Schwanen et al, 2012) hint at some of the pathways but none engages them in depth.…”

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

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Lucas

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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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“…Other research shows the importance of acknowledging that different people have different mobility needs and perceive the benefits and drawbacks of mobility quite differently (Kenyon et al, 2002;Lucas, 2006;Rajé, 2007;Schwanen and Kwan, 2008). Research has also suggested that the knowledge produced by a certain field is a reflection of the characteristics of those working in the field.…”

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What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration

2013

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To understand the complex meanings of mobility and to engage in transport planning and management processes a variety of disciplines, skills, and tools are potentially useful. Universities have a limited amount of time and resources to train future professionals though. This poses a problem: where the teaching priorities should be? By means of a web-survey this study has asked to academics based at a number of universities what are the disciplines, skills, and tools that -according to their personal viewpoints -are the most relevant for practitioners in the mobility and transport sector. The respondents generally support curricula that facilitate a holistic, non-specialised, understanding of mobility and transport issues.

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The Lived Experience of Transport Structure: An Exploration of Transport's Role in People's Lives

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

‘Super simple stuff?’: crafting quiet in trains between Newcastle and Sydney

‘Super simple stuff?’: crafting quiet in trains between Newcastle and Sydney

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

What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration

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