Re-thinking Mobility Poverty: Understanding Users Geographies, Backgrounds and Aptitudes

This book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of ‘transport poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages.

The debate on mobility poverty is gaining momentum due to its role in triggering social exclusion and economic deprivation. In this light, this book examines the social construction of mobility poverty by delving into mobility patterns and needs as they are differently experienced by social groups in different geographical situations. It considers factors such as the role of transport regimes and their social value when analysing the social construction of individual´s mobility needs. Furthermore, the gaps between articulated and unarticulated needs are identified by observing actual travel patterns of individuals. The book offers a comparison of the global phenomenon through fieldwork conducted in six different European countries – Greece, Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania and Germany.

This book will be useful reading for planners, sociologists, geographers, mobility/transport researchers, mobility advocates, policy-makers and transport practitioners.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367333317, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Tobias Kuttler is a geographer and urban planner, working on urban development,

mobility and social disadvantage. He is a researcher at TU Berlin

and PhD Candidate at TU Munich. He is writing his PhD dissertation on

the transformation of the taxi industry in Mumbai, India.

Massimo Moraglio is a Senior Researcher at Technische Universitat Berlin

and Coordinator of the MBA “Sustainable Mobility”. His work explores

the relationship between technology and society, focusing on scenarios and

transitions. He is a member of the editorial board of Mobilities and Applied

Mobilities, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Transport History.