Transport Poverty Meets Car Dependency: A GPS Tracking Study of Socially Disadvantaged Groups in European Rural Peripheries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692322000746?via%3Dihub#" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692322000746?via%3Dihub#</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103351" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103351</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Transport Poverty Meets Car Dependency: A GPS Tracking Study of Socially Disadvantaged Groups in European Rural Peripheries

Original language description

This article explores the spatial mobility of disadvantaged populations in order to enhance our understanding of transport poverty. It is based on participatory GPS tracking data collected in peripheral rural regions in Czechia and Germany. The data provide information on the two-week mobility of 61 socially disadvantaged study participants belonging to the following groups: (a) the lone elderly, (b) the labor market disadvantaged, and (c) single parents. The quantitative analysis utilizes group comparisons of activity space metrics. The results show that the mobility of disadvantaged people varied little between countries and regions, which indicates that individual social disadvantage mattered more than regional spatial disadvantage. Daily mobility depended on individual mobility strategies, and on people's embeddedness in social networks. The mobility patterns of socially disadvantaged groups differed, and showed considerable within-group variability. Our analysis finds that the effects of car access depended on the respondents' levels of social disadvantage, and that a car was not a merely a transport variable, but a socially conditioned variable. Understanding how automobility in rural peripheries is mediated by social ties, and how it can both enable and constrain chances for social participation, is essential for developing measures aimed at reducing transport poverty.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GC18-05704J" target="_blank" >GC18-05704J: Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Transport Geography

ISSN

0966-6923

e-ISSN

1873-1236

Volume of the periodical

101

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

103351

UT code for WoS article

000798115800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85129442516