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Mobility and transport for elderly and handicapped persons

Originally published in 1982 and contributed to by a range of international authors and experts in the field of transport…

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Inclusive and Safe Mobility Needs of Senior Citizens: Implications for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities

Municipalities are concerned with addressing social issues such as mobility inclusion and safety by increasing access to transport facilities and…

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Unequal futures of rural mobility: Challenges for a “Smart Countryside”

Current transport strategy in the UK is strongly urban-focused, with assumptions that technological advances in mobility will simply trickle down…

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Transport policy and social inclusion

Transport-related Social inclusion' is a specific naming of the complex set of interrelationships within which accessibility plays an important role…

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Who’s behind the wheel? Visioning the future users and urban contexts of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are promised by their developers to transform mobilities, making travel accessible to all-including those unable…

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Inclusion of medical fitness to drive in medical postgraduate training curricula

Background: Transport mobility and access to driving are important factors in social inclusion and wellbeing. Doctors have an important role…

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Therapeutic or detrimental mobilities? Walking groups for older adults

The health benefits of walking through greenspace have earned widespread academic attention in recent years and have been termed 'therapeutic…

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Communal therapeutic mobility in group walking: A meta-ethnography

Increased attention to links between walking, health and wellbeing have contributed to a growth in the number of walking groups…

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Hatescape? A relational geography of disability hate crime, exclusion and belonging in the city

Disabled people experience significant social discrimination and spatial exclusion in their everyday lives in the city. In recent years, discriminatory…

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Impact of COVID-19 on neighbourhood physical activity in older adults

Physical activity is critical for older adults' health and was particularly important during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To slow the…

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