Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

Journal article

To date, the majority of studies which consider transport from a social exlusion perspective have been conducted in the context of the developed world where both income poverty and lack of transport are relative rather absolute states. In a unique departure from these previous studies, this paper explores the relationship between transport and social disadvantage in the development context, the key difference being that income poverty is absolute and where there is much lower access to bot...

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Authors: Lucas, K

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Elsevier Publisher's website
• Journal: Journal of Transport Geography Journal website
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1320-1334
• Publication date: 2011-11-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.02.007
• ISSN: 0966-6923
• Language: English
• Keywords: social exclusion; poverty; transportation policy; South Africa; disadvantage
• Subjects: Africa; Social Inequality; Poverty