Equitable Everyday Journeys
Inclusive Mobilities for South Asian Cities
Gebonden Engels 2026 1e druk 9781041002895Samenvatting
This book examines urban mobility across rapidly growing South Asian cities by drawing upon critical analyses of user experiences, popular media representations, and transport policies. While transport infrastructures are expanding, many residents - particularly those from lower-income households, older adults, women, and people with disabilities—lack access to affordable and accessible transport options. This limits their opportunities for decent employment, healthcare, and social participation, making inclusive mobility not a privilege but a fundamental right.
Through interdisciplinary analysis, the contributors generate evidence-based insights essential for developing inclusive transport policies. Moving beyond traditional engineering approaches, they adopt a user-centred perspective that highlights how multiple forms of discrimination - classism, sexism, ageism, and ableism - intersect to produce urban mobility inequalities. The chapters uniquely position transport as a crucial link to health services, education, and employment, serving as both a call to action and a roadmap for building inclusive transport infrastructures in unequal societies.
This book will be of use to researchers of transport geography, urban studies and development studies besides sociology, economics, management, geography, urban planning, urban sociology, policy studies, gender studies, and development studies. It will be an important resource for transport and urban policymakers.
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Bishawjit Mallick and Ajay Bailey. 5 “The modes are too expensive for me, but I am helpless”: affordability and access inequalities to public transport among wheelchair users in Dhaka, Bangladesh;
Selim Jahangir, Ajay Bailey, Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan,and Shanawez Hossain. 6 “Catcalling is so normal”: gendered experiences using public transport in Pakistan; Shanel Khaliq. PART II; Policies and interventions to transport policy. 7 Minding the mobility gap in the face of climate change: policy and knowledge in small city contexts; Tarun Sharma, Nimisha Samadhiya, and Yutika Vora. 8 Fare-free travel for women on public buses: lessons from the Shakti programme in Bangalore, India; Harpreet Kaur, Vinay Baindur, and Govind Gopakumar. 9 Gender-inclusive safety and mobility at Chattogram, Bangladesh through a quality incentive contract scheme;Soma Dhar and Md. Shanawez Hossain. 10 Actions speak louder: identifying tacit needs of women commuters in India through participatory prototyping; Dhriti Dhaundiyal and Nishant Sharma. PART III ; Popular representation of inequalities.11 Calcutta tramways: a tale of surviving heritage on wheels; Priscilla N. Rozario.12 Transported in the city: reading access, age, and class in Indian cityscapes;Shobha Elizabeth John.13 Women’s mobility and public transport in India with special reference to West Bengal; Lipika Kankaria and Sutanuka Banerjee. PART IV; Mobility infrastructures and marginalisation. 14 Assessing viability of metro rail in Tier-II cities: a socioeconomic study; Chitresh Shrivastva.15 Traffic congestion and mobility challenges in the hilly town of Gangtok, India; Kessang Choden Sherpa and Abdul Hannan.16 NMT Initiatives to improve intra-urban mobility in Bengaluru; G. Shivakumar Nayka and Kala Seetharam Sridhar. 17 Does traffic congestion motivate for increasing use of private vehicles? Evidence from Bengaluru city, India; Vijayalakshmi S.18 Social barriers to urban mobility for people with disabilities in India and Bangladesh: stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences; Selim Jahangir, Saakshi Joshi, Seama Mowri, Prajwal Nagesh, and Divya Sussana Patil. 19 Towards an inclusive transport mobility framework for research and policy interventions in South Asian cities; Sobin George, Prajwal Nagesh, and Ajay Bailey. Index.
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- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
