This web site will provide a forum for the discussion of Transport and Society in a period of major social, technological and political change. It contains on-line resource materials; data bases and topical articles. Its intention is to develop a network of interested individuals, groups and organisations to further the improvement of transport policy in its interaction with social policy.

• Transport, a critical dimension in development: its integration in programme provision for older people Presentation given on 7th January, 2009, London to meeting of DSA/Helpage International.
• Inclusive heritage practice: anchoring tourism in sustainable community practice. Presentation to the Sustainable Development Conference, Inverness, November 12th/13th, 2008 Powerpoint
• Living infrastructure: the role of children in sanitation in urban Accra A contribution to the 2008 International Year of Sanitation
• Gendered mobilities: engaging the transport academy in repairing a traditional neglect - keynote presentation Cosmobilities, Basle 2007
• The ferryman's tale: Scottish ferries as cultural venues. TRI Maritime Programme, Orkney Science Festival, September 2007
• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Africa and transport A Workshop at Cornell University Institute for African Development
• T2E: a Scottish rural flexible transport system
• Gender, transport and mobility: a presentation to the TRANSGEN Advisory Board January, 25th/26th, 2007
• Gender, dairy development and Africa: developing international support networks Presentation to CORFILAC symposium, Sicily, 2006
• Maternal mortality and transport: a powerpoint presentation to the Global Knowledge Partnership, Tunis, February 2006
• Skywalks: a supervised reading data base
• Scottish Aviation: time for a debate?
• Powerpoint: Pricing and the socially excluded. Presentation to Meeting the road pricing challenge. Institute of Civil Engineers, London, 5th December, 2005
• Powerpoint: Social exclusion and network geographies. Prepared for DfT Horizons Meeting on Social networks and travel. Lancaster University, 9th December, 2005
• The walking bus: the gender implications. Maria Goeppert Mayer Visiting Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Braunschweig. Click here for German text.
• Gender and transport: creating a collective resource Gender, information communication technology and transport courses delivered at the Technical University of Braunschweig 2005/2006
• Road user charging and equity audits: the way ahead? Presented at Traffic Demand Management Symposium, TRI, Edinburgh, August, 2005
• Road user charging and social exclusion Presented at Traffic Demand Management Symposium, TRI, Edinburgh, August, 2005
• Maternal mortality: Africa's burden Toolkit
• The emergence of youth transport strategies Toolkit
• Seasonal labour, mobility biographies and migrant social capital: the Oaxaca index and the re-integration of labor history. Seminar presentation FIERI, Turin - click here for pdf version
• Guidelines on road side stations - a useful development tool
• EDINBURGH, ROAD PRICING AND THE BOUNDARY PROBLEM: ISSUES OF EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY Report to Scotecon, June 2004
• New interactions, new possibilities: transport, new information communication technology and the reduction of rural social inequalities.Paper presented to the Chinese Economist Society Annual Meeting, Hangzhou, June 2004
• Sustainable urban transport: Bangalore. a contribution to KSRTC Round Table Discussion on "Sustainable development in transport - Energy and Environment", 5th June, 2004Bangalore
• Stranded mobility and the marginalisation of low income communities: an analysis of public services failure in the British public transport sector click here for pdf version
• Transportation and society with special reference to Africa Institute for African Development and City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 2003,2005, 2007
• E-tourism: a path to Fair Trade for Africa Paper presented to the Cornell Conference on Tourism, Sustainable Tourism, Culture and Development in Africa, 2003
• Transport and social exclusion: new policy grounds, new policy options. Key note presentation to IATBR, 2003
• North East Age - Age and accessibility, a community perspective
• Hop picking: a distributed archive an e-heritage of transport and employment
• Virtual Journeys: a new form of electronic synchronisation sharing experience and archiving practice on-line
• Mobility challenge: accessibility for all
• North East Action on Transport
• Scottish transport history: migration, mobility and work amongst the herring lassies
• The herring lassies: a Lowestoft gallery
• A new Scottish enlightenment: transport, telematics and the reduction of social exclusion (Inaugural Lecture, June 19th 2001
• Foot and mouth disease in the UK: a photo journal
• The fuel tax protests
• Townships and transport in South Africa
• The walking bus - a green option to the school rush hour
• Social exclusion: on line materials on telematics and social exclusion
• Transport and Society book series: Ashgate Publications
• Telehealth: online health servicing
• Telegovernance: the emergence of 'wired' administration and government
• Teleshopping: a change in the pattern of household tasks?
• Teleworking: accessible employment, restricted mobility and trip reduction
• Transport strategy: the battle against congestion and pollution
• Remote sensing and information systems - GIS tools and development planning
• Childfocus - transport and the child
• Teletowns: telematics and urban regeneration
• Gendered journeys: equity, efficiency and women's transport patterns
• Transport in transition: toolkits for developing countries
• Ageing and transport in Africa Presentation delivered at the University of North Texas
• ICT and spatial forms - presentation to the STELLA network
• Telecommunications and the speed of social bargaining: the death of power distance. Keynote presentation: Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Budapest, July, 2002
• Information, communication technology and transport planning: a new approachCornell class notes: September 11th, 2002
• Gender and transport: a neglected approach?Cornell class notes: November, 13th, 2002
• Working Papers

The site is managed by:
Margaret Grieco,
Professor of Transport and Society,
Transport Research Institute, Napier University,
Edinburgh
e-mail at [email protected]

Last updated: 21st January 2009