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Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility

Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility
Transport and social exclusion: investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility
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.
accessibility, virtual mobility, social exclusion, information and communications technologies (ICTs), internet
0966-6923
207-219
Kenyon, Susan
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Lyons, Glenn
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Rafferty, Jackie
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Kenyon, Susan
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Lyons, Glenn
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Rafferty, Jackie
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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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Abstract

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.

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Published date: 2002
Keywords: accessibility, virtual mobility, social exclusion, information and communications technologies (ICTs), internet

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Local EPrints ID: 33563
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33563
ISSN: 0966-6923
PURE UUID: ef1776dc-b3b0-4d85-b543-0082dc0fd333

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Date deposited: 17 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:44

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Author: Susan Kenyon
Author: Glenn Lyons
Author: Jackie Rafferty

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