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Evidence Based Review on Mobility – Choices and Barriers for Different Social Groups
CRSP was commissioned by the Department for Transport to conduct an evidence based review of the empirical social research available on mobility choices and barriers for different social groups. The Department for Transport’s overarching aim is to provide transport that works for everyone. Transport is a key gateway to helping people access jobs, education, health services, leisure activities and other provision such as food shopping. Factors such as the availability, physical access, affordability, personal safety concerns, poor travel information and variation in travel aspirations can deter people from using transport to access these facilities and services and can thus reinforce social exclusion.
This review provided important policy information about the mobility of different social groups (such as families, older people, disabled people, different minority ethnic and faith groups) and how transport provision and policy impacts upon their choices. The study commenced in May 2005 and reported in September 2006.
Sponsor: Department for Transport
Project Team: Carolyn Tarrant, Jacqueline Beckhelling, Noel Smith, Adriana Sandu, Bruce Stafford and Nicola Selby
Publication
Smith, N., Beckhelling, J., Ivaldi, A., Kellard, K., Sandu, A. and Tarrant, C. (2006), Evidence Base Review on Mobility: Choices and Barriers for Different Social Groups, Loughborough: CRSP Working Paper 554.
Theme: Poverty and Social Exclusion
Start date: April 2005
Completion date: September 2006
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