Social exclusion, vulnerable groups and driving forces: Towards a social research based policy on car mobility
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Social exclusion, vulnerable groups and driving forces : towards a social research based policy on car mobility
Social research was, until recently, not very important in the transport and mobility domain. There was a bias towards technical studies, engineering studies and towards transport economics. Social science was essentially a fringe activity; psychology was used in traffic management, under the name ‘‘human factors’’, and human geography focussed on the relationship between the characteristics of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Case Studies on Transport Policy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2213-624X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cstp.2014.06.005