ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Transport is seen in the context of three components: the person, the city and the transport system itself: transport is the means by which the people and city are enabled to come together. This can be made to be a therapeutic process, but only if we have a full and deep understanding of how people interact with each other, how time works in both the short and long term and how cities separate people from what they want to do. How these three activities come together determines the extent to which the transport system can deliver wellbeing. Considering cities that have overcome immense social challenges, immense and rapid growth, and considering that cities are people, taking a neurological approach to understanding the interactions that go to make urban life, a transport system can be conceived that could reduce movement in favour of sociality, and enable and facilitate an overall sense of wellbeing. If we attempt to create a transport system without such considerations, we will simply continue along the path of worsening wellbeing – ‘illbeing’, and the city will fail as a good place for people.
