Turning the car inside out: Transport, equity and environment

Jain, Juliet; Guiver, Jo

Abstract

"Turning the car inside out" describes how the environmental damage and social exclusion inflicted by the car can only be seen from outside the car. It explains how car use has reshaped land, time use, social relations and economic patterns. It creates ever more pressures for increased car use, yet inevitably leaves the people temporarily or permanently excluded from cars having to negotiate car distances and times. The worst scenario of car saturation is rejected as untenable both because of the permanent social and environmental impact, but also the self-defeating nature of the quest for mobility.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2001
• Journal: Social Policy and Administration
• Print ISSN: 0144-5596
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-9515
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 569-586
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9515.t01-1-00254
• Keywords: transport, environment, social equity
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1091306
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9515.t01-1-00254
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Lead author and made substantive contribution to the theoretical discussion in the paper. Uses primary research collected for author's MSc dissertation.