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- Title
- Widening the definition of environment for responsible urban commuters
- Author(s)
- Fisher, Frank
- Abstract
- Few technologies are problems in themselves. Problems are generated by the interactions between social contexts and technologies. The car, used for urban driveronly commuting has become a serious problem. A comprehensive exploration of the car's biophysical contexts is accompanied by an examination of the social frameworks used to justify its inappropriate use for mass commuting. Socio-economic structures such as ownership are identified as problematic and a public transport levy in place of ticketing, as beneficial. Bike-rail is proposed as the appropriate commuting mode.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 20, no. 3 (2002), pp. 309-312
- Publication year
- 2002
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Community development; Commuting; Transportation; Urban
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISSN
- 0811-1146
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0811114022000005933
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2002 Urban Policy and Research.
- Peer reviewed
