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Accessibility, mobility and transport-related social exclusion

Accessibility, mobility and transport-related social exclusion
Accessibility, mobility and transport-related social exclusion
This paper briefly reviews the inexorable rise of the social exclusion policy paradigm and uses an adaptation of Amartya Sen’s theory of entitlement to determine appropriate policy responses. In particular, the promotion by the UK Department for Transport of accessibility planning is examined. Although this initiative is not totally without merit, the resulting analysis may be too aggregate, both spatially and socially. The weakness of such an approach is that transport-related social exclusion is not always a socially and spatially concentrated process. Instead we suggest a matrix of area accessibility, area mobility and individual mobility as a possible schema for identifying concentrated and scattered manifestations of social exclusion and inclusion and for suggesting appropriate policy responses. This schema helps produce a more spatially and socially differentiated conceptualisation of social exclusion, helps identify policy responses and most critically highlights that the problems of the socially excluded immobile should not be analysed in isolation from the socially included mobile.
accessibility, mobility, social exclusion, social inclusion
0966-6923
151-160
Preston, John
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Raje, Fiona
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Preston, John
ef81c42e-c896-4768-92d1-052662037f0b
Raje, Fiona
1890e65f-9283-44ef-8730-5aab472ea599

Preston, John and Raje, Fiona (2007) Accessibility, mobility and transport-related social exclusion. Journal of Transport Geography, 15 (3), 151-160. (doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2006.05.002).

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This paper briefly reviews the inexorable rise of the social exclusion policy paradigm and uses an adaptation of Amartya Sen’s theory of entitlement to determine appropriate policy responses. In particular, the promotion by the UK Department for Transport of accessibility planning is examined. Although this initiative is not totally without merit, the resulting analysis may be too aggregate, both spatially and socially. The weakness of such an approach is that transport-related social exclusion is not always a socially and spatially concentrated process. Instead we suggest a matrix of area accessibility, area mobility and individual mobility as a possible schema for identifying concentrated and scattered manifestations of social exclusion and inclusion and for suggesting appropriate policy responses. This schema helps produce a more spatially and socially differentiated conceptualisation of social exclusion, helps identify policy responses and most critically highlights that the problems of the socially excluded immobile should not be analysed in isolation from the socially included mobile.

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Published date: May 2007
Additional Information: Preston J.M., Raje F, (2007). "Accessibility, Mobility and Transport-related Social Exclusion." Journal of Transport Geography, 15(3), 151-160
Keywords: accessibility, mobility, social exclusion, social inclusion

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Local EPrints ID: 53381
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/53381
ISSN: 0966-6923
PURE UUID: e8c947e4-52d1-4c50-bc16-da857db8d6e4
ORCID for John Preston: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-049X

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Date deposited: 21 Jul 2008
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:48

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Author: John Preston ORCID iD
Author: Fiona Raje

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