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

This paper looks at the tensions between the local character of the lived experience of transport and the more general view taken in transport policy studies. Research conducted in 2002-2005 into the lived experience of transport structure is presented, centering on a social transport policy approach to the phenomenon of suppressed journeys and barriers to travel. The research was funded by the Department for Transport with the primary goal of exploring the complexities associated with travel among different social groups and across different geographic locations. Two case studies were undertaken, one in a rural location and one in a peripheral urban location in Oxfordshire. Analysis of the case-study materials resulted in several findings, the most pertinent of which is that there is a major consultation gap between users of the transport system and planners of that system. Additionally, existing methodologies in transport and travel under-record and under-represent the barriers to mobility experienced in the routine of everyday life within contemporary Britain.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis
• Authors:
  • Raje, Fiona
• Publication Date: 2007-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 51-74
• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Case studies; Economic and social factors; Mobility; Social impacts; Transportation policy; Travel behavior; Travel patterns
• Uncontrolled Terms: Travel barriers
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01049766
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 25 2007 10:34AM