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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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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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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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Physical activity and retirement: original analysis of responses to the English Adult Active Lives Survey

Objectives: Opportunities for older adults to do physical activity may depend on other commitments. We wanted to see if reported…

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Pedestrian slips, trips and falls: An evaluation of their causes, impact, scale and cost.

The accompanying investment of ?2 billion in walking and cycling over the next five years will make a huge difference,…

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The Future of Transport in an Ageing Society

This project from ILC-UK and Age UK sets out the key transport challenges that are arising from the UK's ageing…

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Buses – a lifeline for older people. Older people’s experience of bus services in Wales

Bus services are vitally important to older people, yet many commercial services do not respond to the needs of older…

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Painful Journeys: Why getting to hospital appointments is a major issue for older people

For most of us just having a hospital appointment is enough to worry about but imagine having to make the…

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Does More Cycling Mean More Diversity in Cycling?

In low-cycling countries, cycling is not evenly distributed across genders and age groups. In the UK, men are twice as…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024