Investigating links between transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being in Melbourne: preliminary results

While transport disadvantage and its association with social exclusion is now a major research and policy field in the UK, and tackling transport equity is a part of US policy, Australia lacks a similar focus. This paper presents preliminary results from a new international research project aimed at redressing this Australian research gap. The project is investigating associations between transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being in metropolitan, regional and rural Victoria, Australia. The project is original in aiming to quantify associations between lack of transport and social exclusion and is also unique in linking these factors to the social and psychological concept of subjective well-being. Section 2 of this paper outlines the aims of the project and describes the methodologies which are to be employed including recent methodology development. Section 3 presents a summary of preliminary results concerning an assessment of transport disadvantage in fringe urban Melbourne. Section 4 details results concerning an assessment of the spatial distribution of public transport supply relative to the distribution of transport disadvantage in Melbourne. The final section concludes the paper with a summary of major findings and some discussion on areas of future research and development in the project. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E215911.

• Authors:
  • CURRIE, G
  • RICHARDSON, T
  • SMYTH, P
  • VELLA-BRODRICK, D
  • HIME, J
  • LUCAS, K
  • STANLEY, J
  • MORRIS, J
  • KINNEAR, R
  • STANLEY, J
• Publication Date: 2007-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 21-36 [WORKSHOP 7D]
• Serial:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPETITION AND OWNERSHIP IN LAND PASSENGER TRANSPORT, 10TH, 2007, HAMILTON ISLAND, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher: University of Sydney

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Conferences; Public transit; Sociology; Suburbs; Travel
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 8525: Conference; 698: Journey; 744: Public transport; 2253: Sociology; 304: Suburbs
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01094867
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 25 2008 8:06AM