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TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of new transport technologies on intra-urban mobility: a view from the past.
AU - Pooley, Colin
AU - Turnbull, Jean
AU - Adams, Mags
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper reappraises the ways in which travellers in urban areas have interacted with new transport technologies and argues that mobility change over the past century or so may be less than is sometimes assumed. Attention is focused on changes in the journey to work over the twentieth century, on the experience of new travel technologies by an adolescent female in the late-nineteenth century, on perceptions of competing forms of urban transport in Manchester and Glasgow in the inter-war period, and on changes in the everyday mobility of children aged 10/11 since the 1940s. It is argued that although the material experience of everyday transport has changed significantly over the past century with the advent of new transport technologies, these did not necessarily change the aspirations and decisions of people with regard to everyday mobility. Moreover, such changes did not always bring benefits to all travellers
AB - This paper reappraises the ways in which travellers in urban areas have interacted with new transport technologies and argues that mobility change over the past century or so may be less than is sometimes assumed. Attention is focused on changes in the journey to work over the twentieth century, on the experience of new travel technologies by an adolescent female in the late-nineteenth century, on perceptions of competing forms of urban transport in Manchester and Glasgow in the inter-war period, and on changes in the everyday mobility of children aged 10/11 since the 1940s. It is argued that although the material experience of everyday transport has changed significantly over the past century with the advent of new transport technologies, these did not necessarily change the aspirations and decisions of people with regard to everyday mobility. Moreover, such changes did not always bring benefits to all travellers
U2 - 10.1068/a37271
DO - 10.1068/a37271
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 253
EP - 267
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
SN - 0308-518X
IS - 2
ER -