ABSTRACT

Transport is a vital part of everyday life. It enables people to make their regular journeys from home to work, school and shop and provides the essential means of access to health care and other welfare services. It makes possible increasingly diverse and discriminating patterns of social and leisure activity. Businesses rely on transport to bring employees and customers to their premises and to convey the goods and services essential to their functioning. For all these purposes transport does not simply cater for existing requirements – it opens up (or constrains) opportunities individually and collectively.