Transport divide

Transport divide (also known as transport exclusion, transport disadvantage, transport deprivation, transportation divide, and mobility divide) refers to unequal access to transportation.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It can result in the social exclusion of the disadvantaged groups.[5][7]

The concept covers issues ranging from unequal access to public transportation[1][3][5] to the unequal opportunities in global migration due to different visa policies as part of the global North–South divide.[4]

There are a number of aspects of the transport divide. People may have difficulty in using transport system because of physical barters, most commonly such as lack of accessibility for the disabled (lack of wheelchair access also impacts people with baby strollers or bicycles); insufficient labeling can also cause problems for people who do not speak the local language. Financial barriers in the form of cost of services can prevent the poor from using the transport services. Distance barriers (in the form of distance from people's homes) can make some areas mostly inaccessible to people without access to car, particularly when local public transportation is not well developed. Time barriers include problems caused by rush hour, but also time constrains caused by the need to arrange for care for members of the family (most often childcare), which when coupled with poor transport infrastructure can be a factor reducing women's participation in the workforce. There are also fear barriers such as fear of groping leading to the creation of women-only passenger car. Attempts to fix the fear barriers through increased surveillance and policing have however been linked to the lowering of the usage of such services by other groups, such as the youth.[8][5][7]

See also

References
  1. Roger L. Kemp; Carl J. Stephani (17 February 2015). Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide: A Handbook of Best Practices Outside the United States. McFarland. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-0-7864-7075-4.
  2. Report of the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Right to the City : Bridging the Urban Divide, 22-26 March, 2010. UN-HABITAT. 2010. p. 62.
  3. Amedee, George (2005). "Closing the Transportation Divide: Linking TANF and Transportation". Race, Gender & Class. 12 (3/4): 86–106. ISSN 1082-8354. JSTOR 41675264.
  4. Mau, Steffen; Gülzau, Fabian; Laube, Lena; Zaun, Natascha (2015-07-03). "The Global Mobility Divide: How Visa Policies Have Evolved over Time" (PDF). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 41 (8): 1192–1213. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2015.1005007. ISSN 1369-183X.
  5. Church, A; Frost, M; Sullivan, K (2000-07-01). "Transport and social exclusion in London". Transport Policy. 7 (3): 195–205. doi:10.1016/S0967-070X(00)00024-X. ISSN 0967-070X.
  6. Power, Anne (2012-03-01). "Social inequality, disadvantaged neighbourhoods and transport deprivation: an assessment of the historical influence of housing policies". Journal of Transport Geography. Social Impacts and Equity Issues in Transport. 21: 39–48. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.01.016. ISSN 0966-6923.
  7. Kamruzzaman, Md; Yigitcanlar, Tan; Yang, Jay; Mohamed, Mohd Afzan (July 2016). "Measures of Transport-Related Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the Literature". Sustainability. 8 (7): 696. doi:10.3390/su8070696.
  8. Julian Hine; Fiona Mitchell (2 March 2017). Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion: Exclusionary Mechanisms in Transport in Urban Scotland. Taylor & Francis. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-1-351-87775-6.
  • Summary Report of the Urban Researchers Roundtable, held at the. Fifth Session of the World Urban. Forum. “The Right to the City: Bridging the Urban Transport Divide at the 5th World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, March 2010


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