ABSTRACT
In drawing together the concepts and key ideas explored in the preceding chapters, this chapter describes the concept of communityowned transport and explores the case for community ownership, including the ways in which it might pro mote sustainable urban transport. In doing so, the chapter also argues the case of community ownership based on a critique of the dominant approaches of private and public transport in delivering urban mobility. As stated above, a very broad interpretation of the concept is offered: communityowned transport is a mobility service provided or facilitated through a communitybased organisation located within civil society. Community ownership can take a variety of forms, including cooperatives, unincorporated and incorporated associations and companies of various types. No restrictions are considered here in terms of form of community organisation, membership or structure of the organisation, whether standalone or within another organisation, values or ideology of the organisation, relationship with other organisations or type of mobility service offered.
