ISBN:
9786613367471
,
1283367475
,
1409411516
,
9781283367479
,
9781409411512
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVII, 363 S.)
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Transport and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mobilities
DDC:
303.48/32
Keywords:
Transportation Social aspects
;
Migration, Internal Social aspects
Abstract:
This book brings together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social sciences and transport science and offers rich consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities. It seeks to not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile live, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined, theories and methods which contributors here are themselves developing and enhancing
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Introducing the Mobilities Turn; 1 Does Mobility Have a Future?; 2 Mobility and Transport Disadvantage; 3 Structures of Encounterability: Space, Place, Paths and Identities; 4 Perspectives on Young People's Daily Mobility, Transport and Service Access in Sub-Saharan Africa; 5 Research on Mobility and Lifestyle - What are the Results?; 6 Egos' Horizons and Behind Them: Snowball Sampling on Personal Leisure Networks; 7 Connected, Computed, Collective: Smart Mobilities
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Technology Fix Versus Behaviour Change9 The Impact of Differences in Commuting Duration on Family Travel and Activity Patterns in the London and Paris Regions; 10 Transport and Social Exclusion: Where Are We Now?; 11 What We Do Whilst Driving: Towards the Driverless Car; 12 Configuring Commuters' Accessibility to Multimedia Mobile Services: The Case of Bluetooth 'Augmented' Advertising in the Paris Metro; 13 Young People, Mobility and the Environment: An Integrative Approach; 14 Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: Towards a Twin Transition
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Transport History, the Usable Past and the Future of Mobility16 Aviation and Ethnicity: An Under-investigated Area; 17 Bridging the Mobility Gap: The Role of ITS; Epilogue The Mobility of the Sick: Perverse Organisational Premises in the Transport Arrangements of the Contemporary National Health Service; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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