Running on empty
Transport, social exclusion and environmental justice.

Author/Editor(s):

Karen Lucas

Format:

Hardback , 320 pages , 240 x 172 mm
Other formats available

ISBN

9781861345707

Published:

13 Oct 2004

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This timely and informative book is unique in addressing issues of social exclusion and distributive justice in transportation from a comparative perspective. It contains introductory material useful in teaching and more advanced case studies useful inresearch and advocacy work. It should be read by anyone seriously interested in the subject.
Martin Wachs, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley

With both transport and poverty and social exclusion at the top of the current political agenda, this highly topical book fulfils a pressing need for a publication that spans the transport and social policy fields.
Chris Banister, School of Planning and Landscape, The University of Manchester

This is a timely and well-conceived collection... all the chapters are worth exploring" and " The book will be an important resource for scholars in this area [transport, social exclusion and the environment] and includes material that will be of interest to students in a range of professional and academic disciplines, including community development, planning, transport economics and environmental studies. It contains potentially helpful contributions to the development of thinking in many areas and should definitely be given a place in any serious collection covering these areas of interest.
Ken McCulloch, Community Development Journa

About This Book

Running on empty argues that past failure to address fundamental inequalities in the ability of low-income households to access adequate transport has undermined effective delivery of welfare policies in the US and UK; describes the new policies and initiatives being developed to address this oversight; outlines the case for including transport as an area of social policy inquiry, identifying key factors and uses case study examples of practical initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic to draw lessons for future policy and practice. The book is aimed at students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in understanding the social effects of transport policy. The comparison between US and UK policy and practice adds an important new dimension to those familiar with the subject, while its easy-to-read format and well-illustrated case study examples make it an ideal first text for newcomers to the field.

Author Biography

Dr Karen Lucas is a Senior Research Fellow with the Transport Studies Group at the University of Westminster. She recently acted as a policy advisor to the government's Social Exclusion Unit to address the issue of access to transport in the UK. She is also a member of the US Transport Research Board's Environmental Justice Task Force.

Contents

Introduction - Karen Lucas
Part One: Setting the context: Locating transport as a social policy problem - Karen Lucas
Examining the empirical evidence of transport inequality in the US and UK - Kelly Clifton and Karen Lucas
Part Two: The UK perspective: Transport and social exclusion - Karen Lucas
Ensuring access and participation in the Liverpool city region - Murray Grant
Halton Neighbourhood Travel Team - Julian Westwood
BraunstoneBus: a link with the future - Mike Preston
A road less travelled: case studies from community transport - Martin Jones
Conclusions from the UK experience - Karen Lucas
Part Three: The US perspective: Transportation and environmental justice - Lori G. Kennedy
Job isolation in the US: narrowing the gap through job access and reverse-commute programs - Robert Cervero
Community impact assessment for US17 - Anne Morris
Crossroad blues: the MTA Consent Decree and just transportation - Robert García and Thomas A. Rubin
Women's issues in transportation - Stephanie Ortoleva and Marc Brenman
Conclusions from the US experience - Karen Lucas
Part Four: Transferring the lessons: Towards a 'social welfare' approach to transport - Karen Lucas.

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