Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility
Kenyon, Susan, Lyons, Glenn and Rafferty, Jackie (2002) Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility. Journal of Transport Geography, 10, (3), 207-219. (doi:10.1016/S0966-6923(02)00012-1).
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This paper introduces a mobility dimension to social exclusion, suggesting a strong correlation between a lack of access to adequate mobility and lack of access to opportunities, social networks, goods and services. This correlation exists as both a cause and consequence of social exclusion. The authors question the likelihood that increased physical mobility, by car or public transport, can, by itself, provide a fully viable or sustainable solution to mobility-related aspects of social exclusion. This paper cautiously suggests that the use of information and communications technologies could enable a new, virtual mobility, enabling an Internet-based increase in accessibility as an alternative to an increase in physical mobility. Finally, consideration is given to the possibility of a virtual mobility-related dimension of exclusion and to the possible social implications of inclusion of virtual mobility in an integrated transport strategy.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0966-6923 (print) |
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| Keywords: | accessibility, virtual mobility, social exclusion, information and communications technologies (ICTs), internet |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Social Work Studies |
| Item ID: | 33563 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 11:46 |
| Contributors: | Kenyon, Susan (Author) Lyons, Glenn (Author) Rafferty, Jackie (Author) |
| Date: | 2002 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | s.kenyon@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33563 |
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