👩🏽🏫In past months, I've worked w/ @SMCommission on understanding role of transport policy in supporting/hindering #socialmobility.
📙Their new report w/ a chapter on transport policy (I helped write)➡️
gov.uk/government/pub…
📊Short thread on #transport, #inequality & access⬇️
📙Their new report w/ a chapter on transport policy (I helped write)➡️
gov.uk/government/pub…
📊Short thread on #transport, #inequality & access⬇️
Simply put, it breaks down to the following:
1⃣ 🏘️🏢Where people live
2⃣ 🏫🏬Where opportunities (jobs & education) are
3⃣ 🚌🚊How well they are connected
🚇🚌W/o regular, frequent & affordable transport to opportunities they are inaccessible to many
📑➡️gov.uk/government/pub…
1⃣ 🏘️🏢Where people live
2⃣ 🏫🏬Where opportunities (jobs & education) are
3⃣ 🚌🚊How well they are connected
🚇🚌W/o regular, frequent & affordable transport to opportunities they are inaccessible to many
📑➡️gov.uk/government/pub…
🚏Poor transport = major barrier to employment
📕⬇️ @jrf_uk reports public transport in UK constrains instead of enables finding/keeping work
jrf.org.uk/report/tacklin…
🚌🗺️Public transport doesn't match job's hours & location
🚗Making using/owning a car a necessity to keep a job
📕⬇️ @jrf_uk reports public transport in UK constrains instead of enables finding/keeping work
jrf.org.uk/report/tacklin…
🚌🗺️Public transport doesn't match job's hours & location
🚗Making using/owning a car a necessity to keep a job
💷🚌Cost /Affordability of #transport is key barrier to #employment & #education 🚧🧑🏽💼👷🏽
🎫💷Low income households spend more of their income on commuting
📈25% compared to on average 13%
➡️limits where they look for/can get to work
📊Rise in bus fares
➡️researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…
🎫💷Low income households spend more of their income on commuting
📈25% compared to on average 13%
➡️limits where they look for/can get to work
📊Rise in bus fares
➡️researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…
🚥Access to jobs by public transport within 45min (avg UK commute) & areas of deprivation
🏘️Working population live in areas:
🟠57% with low access to jobs
🔴25% with low access to jobs & high deprivation
🧑🏿💼👷🏼♀️👩🏾💻Job access has not improved since 2010
📑➡️gov.uk/government/pub…
🏘️Working population live in areas:
🟠57% with low access to jobs
🔴25% with low access to jobs & high deprivation
🧑🏿💼👷🏼♀️👩🏾💻Job access has not improved since 2010
📑➡️gov.uk/government/pub…
🚗Many see a car as a necessity b/c of poor alternatives🚏
But for many a car is unaffordable
💷9% households struggle w/ high motoring costs on low incomes
Rising to:
👪12% w/ children,
💻13% w/o anyone in a full-time job
🏘️17% w/ 1 or more w/o a job
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
But for many a car is unaffordable
💷9% households struggle w/ high motoring costs on low incomes
Rising to:
👪12% w/ children,
💻13% w/o anyone in a full-time job
🏘️17% w/ 1 or more w/o a job
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
🚏7% UK households in forced car ownership (FCO)
🚗FCO=having car b/c seen as only viable travel option but can't afford it
Households w/ FCO
💡51% unpaid utility bills
🏘️46% can't heat home
11-12% low income households in FCO (70% higher than avg)
📑eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122016/
🚗FCO=having car b/c seen as only viable travel option but can't afford it
Households w/ FCO
💡51% unpaid utility bills
🏘️46% can't heat home
11-12% low income households in FCO (70% higher than avg)
📑eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122016/
