Long distance transport poverty: Criteria setting and testing within Europe.
Warnock-Smith, David, Mainatt, A and Christidis, Panayotis (2023) Long distance transport poverty: Criteria setting and testing within Europe. In: 55th UTSG Conference,, 10th July 2023, Cardiff Wales.
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Abstract
The concept of transport poverty is a relatively new area of research and policy focus and what has been proposed thus far has only been through the lens of urban mobility. Given the essential nature of many long-distance journeys, there is currently a dearth of research into the concept of longdistance transport poverty and the role of air transport connectivity within that. Using indevelopment definitions of urban transport poverty as a basis, a new working definition and criteria for long-distance transport poverty has been proposed and then tested against a sample of NUTS3 level European regions. According to this new definition of long-distance transport poverty, it was found that residents located in regions with very limited access to air transport services, do often benefit from road and rail alternatives, albeit with some evidence of average rail journey times being too slow to be ‘convenient’, particularly in those regions that are already vulnerable from an air transport perspective. There is some additional evidence across regional groups of a household affordability issue if multiple long-distance journeys need to be made annually and/or if there are a high number of dependents in each household. It is recommended that, as urban mobility transport poverty is further developed as a concept and gains more prominence from a policy perspective, that it is important not to ignore long-distance transport equality research given its journey purpose essentiality for several socio-demographic groups.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | transport poverty, transport inequality, long-distance transport poverty, air transport connectivity, rail connectivity, road connectivity |
| Depositing User: | RED Unit Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2023 12:03 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2023 12:03 |
| URI: | https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18812 |
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