Sentence examples for poverty accessibility from inspiring English sources

In Section 2, we briefly discuss the notions of transport poverty, accessibility poverty and transport-related social exclusion and their interrelationships.

Note that in what follows, we only relate to accessibility poverty if it results from transport poverty.

Accessibility poverty is thus less severe than transport-related (or accessibility-related) social exclusion: the latter assumes long-term impacts on a person's life, while the former may also occur without these long-term effects and may not even affect a person's level of activity participation [42, 43].

The term accessibility poverty differs from the notion of transport poverty, in that it is based on a broader interpretation of the notion of resources.

Note furthermore that accessibility poverty may also occur independently of transport poverty, for instance when a person enjoys a high level of potential mobility but lives in a (very) remote locality.

Accessibility poverty occurs if a person has a lack of access to key opportunities, such as employment, education, health care, or social support networks [35, 36].

In this latter case, accessibility poverty is caused by the existing land use patterns rather than by transport poverty.

Accessibility poverty develops into transport-related social exclusion if systematic problems of access to opportunities lead to significant impacts on a person's life, such as unemployment, deterioration of health, or social isolation [67].

However, transport poverty does imply accessibility poverty whenever a substantial level of mobility is necessary to gain access to key destinations [31].

For this reason, we employ this indicator in our estimate of households in accessibility poverty below.

In other words, persons experiencing accessibility poverty are at risk of transport-related social exclusion.