ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses that the importance of social synchronisation in organising travel and transport had been largely ignored within the study of transport until the advent of the activity' approach developed some decades ago at the Transport Studies Unit at Oxford. The social exclusion/inclusion agenda places the focus on transport in relation to very uneven levels of societal participation across various domains. The book brings together most of the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science reviewing the field of mobilities research as it emerged from these various traditions and trends. It aims to bring closer and richer consideration to the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised.
