Bücher der Reihe Transport and Society

By combining focus groups and interviews with research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system.

Examines strategies for the representation of user interests in public transport from a variety of perspectives. This book reviews approaches to integrating the passengers' views in the planning process and to protecting their interests in operations and customer care across a range of European countries, including Austria, and Czech Republic.

This book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of `transport poverty¿ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages.

Bringing together the authors working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this offers closer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities. It draws attention to many areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives.

The dependency of Western societies on the car is a unique situation in history, but does not get much attention; car use is seen as just a normal situation. The population at large knows the risks, knows the disadvantages, experiences the advantages and keeps driving. Using data from Western Europe, this book examines three key themes.

This book examines non-motorized transport (NMT) behaviour, infrastructure provision and service delivery development in the African urban context. It challenges the conventional focus on transport network analysis and motor-vehicle dominated infrastructure decision-making, arguing that consideration of people walking, cycling and pushing carts

This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments.