http://www1.caminos.upm.es/music1/files/04_seminarios/1_Sem/05/descargas/5_Transport_Exclusion_Karen%20Lucas.pdf

Transport and social exclusion: Where are we now?

http://tram.mcgill.ca/Research/Publications/Access_JTG.pdf

Measuring non-motorized accessibility: issues, alternatives, and execution

In this paper, we present the case that traditional transport appraisal methods do not sufficiently capture the social dimensions of mobility and accessibility. However, understanding this is highly relevant for policymakers to understand the impacts of their transport decisions. These dimensions include the distribution of mobility and accessibility levels over particular areas or for specific population groups, as well as how this may affect various social outcomes, including their levels of participation, social inclusion and community cohesion. In response, we propose a method to assess the socially relevant accessibility impacts (SRAIs) of policies in some of these key dimensions. The method combines the use of underlying ethics principles, more specifically the theories of egalitarianism and sufficientarianism, in combination with accessibility-based analysis and the Lorenz curve and Gini index. We then demonstrate the method in a case study example. Our suggestion is that policymakers can use these ethical perspectives to determine the equity of their policies decisions and to set minimum standards for local transport delivery. This will help them to become more confident in the development and adoption of new decision frameworks that promote accessibility over mobility and which also disaggregate the costs and benefits of transport policies over particular areas or for specific under-served population groups.

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A method to evaluate equitable accessibility: combining ethical theories and accessibility-based approaches

The social consequences of transport decision-making: clarifying concepts, synthesising knowledge and assessing implications

Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

AMELIA: A tool to make transport policies more socially inclusive

“Social exclusion” is a concept that has become increasingly prominent in the UK and elsewhere in the last ten years. Social exclusion occurs as a result of a series of problems that prevent people from being able to participate in activities that are considered normal in their society. Some of these problems are related to issues of accessibility. This paper outlines work carried out in the context of the AUNT-SUE (Accessibility and User Needs in Transport in Sustainable Urban Environments) project to develop and model an appropriate set of accessibility benchmarks for older people. Results confirmed that the travel patterns of older people are very different from those of the average person in the UK and that it was necessary to tailor accessibility benchmarks to the characteristics of this group. A set of benchmarks was developed based on ability to undertake different types of activity. These benchmarks are currently being incorporated into AMELIA, a GIS-based tool for assessing the effect of different policy actions on accessibility. Issues that have arisen include how to model the myriad micro-level circumstances that affect the mobility of older people. Some initial analysis has shown that these details can make a substantial difference to the assessment of the accessibility of a destination. Examples are drawn from St Albans in Hertfordshire, UK.

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Assessing the Extent of Transport Social Exclusion Among the Elderly

A ship movement classification based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) data using Convolutional Neural Network

Streets can be made more liveable by ensuring that they are accessible to everyone. This requires the identification of ways to overcome the barriers to access for those who are socially excluded. In order to address these issues, a software tool, AMELIA (A Methodology for Enhancing Life by Increasing Accessibility), is being developed to test the extent to which transport policies can increase social inclusion. This is part of a research project being carried out as part of a large programme looking at ‘Accessibility and User Needs in Transport in a Sustainable Urban Environment’. AMELIA will be used to investigate how many more people are able to reach various opportunities, including shops, medical and welfare centres, employment and leisure facilities. It will be used to establish how many people meet accessibility benchmarks defined elsewhere in the project with and without the policy intervention. Micro-level data based upon street audits have been collected for the city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, including details such as steps, slopes, access to individual buildings, and obstructions on the pavement. In this paper, the effect of removing barriers to movement on the street is discussed because, by doing so, streets can be made more liveable.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fudi.2008.12.pdf

AMELIA: making streets more accessible for people with mobility difficulties

Please click here to download the map associated with this article. Accessibility measures and maps are useful in helping to identify social groups and locations with poor levels of access to services and facilities. These measures however fail to directly account for differences in physical capabilities and mobility levels of different social groups of people. Also, many of the access issues for the excluded groups of people such as the elderly are micro level such as the obstructions in pavements, while accessibility measures tend to be at macro level and do not include the whole journey. To help do this a GIS-based tool, AMELIA, has been developed. This paper discusses the specific elements of accessibility incorporated in AMELIA such as the modelling of walk and public transport accessibility, the micro level data required, the capabilities of the different social groups considered and how these affect the accessibility measures. Public transport accessibility maps produced for the elderly pe...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.4113/jom.2010.1077

K Achuthan

Papers

AMELIA: A tool to make transport policies more socially inclusive

Assessing the Extent of Transport Social Exclusion Among the Elderly

A ship movement classification based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) data using Convolutional Neural Network

AMELIA: making streets more accessible for people with mobility difficulties

Mapping accessibility differences for the whole journey and for socially excluded groups of people