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2021-22 Pilot Project
The project aims to leverage the concept of transport-related social exclusion (TRSE), as an entry point for a dialogue with market, state, and civil society actors about their practices and how these practices lead to intended or unintended social impacts. It will map social and spatial inequalities associated with the provision of urban transport service disruptions brought about by the adoption of e-scooters as part of Transport for London’s (TfL) trial in London, and identifying their potential to sustainably address transport-related social exclusion (TRSE), while securing necessary partnerships to co-produce knowledge and foster innovation.
Objectives: (1) From a perspective of Transport-Related Social Exclusion (TRSE) to challenge current understandings of how the adoption of micro-mobility disrupts attitudes and practices of those involved in planning, developing, regulating, and providing transport. (2) Through the lenses of accessibility and transport inequalities, to analyse how e-scooters affect residents with different social identities. (3) To identify opportunities and challenges, including incentives and disincentives for leveraging micro-mobility to address TRSE. This approach can help unpack the practices, perceptions, and relationships of actors in a new and rapidly changing industry such as app-based transport services (ABT) and understand changes brought about by broader external.
Research team
Social Science Principal Investigator
Dr. Daniel Oviedo, Lecturer, Development Planning Unit, Bartlett, BEAMS
Non-Social Science Co-Investigator
Professor Helena Titheridge, Professor of Mobility and Sustainable Transport, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Engineering Sciences, BEAMS
Second Co-Investigator
Dr. Joanna Hale, Lead Sustainability Consultant, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, Brain Sciences, LMS
Early Career Researcher
Azadeh Mashayekhi, Development Planning Unit, Bartlett, BEAMS