Equitable Everyday Journeys

Inclusive Mobilities for South Asian Cities
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-00364-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book examines urban mobility across rapidly growing South Asian cities by drawing upon critical analyses of user experiences, popular media representations, and transport policies. While transport infrastructures are expanding, many residents - particularly those from lower-income households, older adults, women, and people with disabilities—lack access to affordable and accessible transport options. This limits their opportunities for decent employment, healthcare, and social participation, making inclusive mobility not a privilege but a fundamental right.

Through interdisciplinary analysis, the contributors generate evidence-based insights essential for developing inclusive transport policies. Moving beyond traditional engineering approaches, they adopt a user-centred perspective that highlights how multiple forms of discrimination - classism, sexism, ageism, and ableism - intersect to produce urban mobility inequalities. The chapters uniquely position transport as a crucial link to health services, education, and employment, serving as both a call to action and a roadmap for building inclusive transport infrastructures in unequal societies.

This book will be of use to researchers of transport geography, urban studies and development studies besides sociology, economics, management, geography, urban planning, urban sociology, policy studies, gender studies and development studies. It will be an important resource for transport and urban policymakers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailey, Ajay

George, Sobin

Nagesh, Prajwal

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Verkehrstechnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction PART I: INTERSECTIONAL INEQUITIES 2. Pregnant Women’s Mobility in One of the Coastal Municipalities of Bangladesh 3. Urban Marginality in Post-liberalised India: Urban Mobility Innovations, Rickshawwalas and Production of Marginality in Delhi 4. Mobilityscape of Older Adults in Coastal Communities in Bangladesh 5. “The modes are too expensive for me, but I am helpless”: High costs of urban mobility and inequalities of accessing public transport among wheelchair users in Dhaka, Bangladesh 6. “Catcalling is so normal”: Gendered experiences using public transport in Pakistan. PART II: POLICIES and INTERVENTIONS to TRANSPORT POLICY 7. Minding the Mobility Gap in the Face of Climate Change: Policy and Knowledge in Small City Contexts 8. Fare-free Travel for Women on Public Buses: Lessons from the Shakti programme in Bangalore, India 9. Gender-Inclusive Safety and Mobility at Chattogram, Bangladesh through a Quality Incentive Contract Scheme 10. Actions speak louder: identifying tacit needs of women commuters in India through participatory prototyping PART III: POPULAR REPRESENTATION of INEQUALITIES 11. Calcutta Tramways: A Tale of Surviving Heritage on Wheels 12. Transported in the City: Reading Access, Age, and Class in Indian Cityscapes 13. Women’s Mobility and Public Transport in India with Special Reference to West Bengal PART IV: MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURES and MARGINALIZATION 14. Assessing Viability of Metro in Tier-II Cities: A Socioeconomic Study 15. Traffic Congestion and Mobility Challenges in the Hilly Town of Gangtok, India 16. NMT Initiatives to Improve Intra Urban Mobility in Bengaluru 17. Does Traffic Congestion motivate for increasing use of private vehicles? Evidence from Bengaluru City, India 18. Social barriers to urban mobility for people with disabilities in India and Bangladesh: Stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences 19. Towards an inclusive transport mobility framework for research and policy interventions in South Asian Cities Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ajay Bailey is Professor of Geographies of Health, Inclusion, and Development at the International Development Studies group at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. He works at the interface of anthropology, geography, demography, and public health.

Sobin George is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Change and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, India. His research and teaching focus on social gradients in health, work and health, marginality and development, informality and labour rights and mobility and welfare outcomes. He has authored Medical Innovation and Disease Burden (2021), The Caste Embeddedness of Rural Public Health Services (2018) and Work and Health in Informal Economy (2016). He has edited volumes including Change and Mobility in Contemporary Indian Society (2019), Redefined Labour Spaces (2017) and Health System Strengthening (2016) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

Prajwal Nagesh is Assistant Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He earned his PhD from the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on urban inequalities, the political economy of urbanisation, urban transport, and caste studies, using qualitative research methods.