Transport, Travel and Later Life

Dr Charles Musselwhite is Associate Professor in Gerontology at the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) at Swansea University, UK, leading the Environments and Ageing research strand. His research interests involve ageing, travel and transport, addressing technological, environmental, health and sustainability contexts of transportation and built environment studies. Charles has advised the United Kingdom (UK) parliament on older people’s transport issues and is an Executive committee member of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG), where he is editor of their journal, Generations Review. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Transport & Health and on the editorial board for Ageing and Society journal.

• Introduction, Conceptualising Travel, Transport and Mobility for Older People; Charles Musselwhite. 1. Older People’s Travel and Its Relationship to Their Health and Wellbeing; Roger Mackett. 2. Are Older People Safe Drivers On the Roads, Testing and Training; Kit Mitchell 3. Old Age: What Are the Main Difficulties and Vulnerabilities in The Transport Environment? Deborah Mifsud, Maria Attard And Stephen Ison 4. The Travel Needs of Older People and What Happens When People Give-Up Driving; Charles Musselwhite and Hebba Haddad 5. Public and Community Transport; Charles Musselwhite 6. Creating A Convivial Public Realm for an Ageing Population. Being A Pedestrian and The Built Environment; Charles Musselwhite 7. Cycling Beyond Your Sixties: The Role of Cycling in Later Life and How It Can Be Supported and Promoted; Tim Jones, Kiron Chatterjee, Ben Spencer and Heather Jones 8. Old Driver Needs and Issues: Using Grounded Theory to Elicit the Driving Needs of Older People; Charles Musselwhite and Hebba Haddad 9. Technologies, Education and Training to Improve Older Driver Behaviour; Charles Musselwhite 10. Virtual and Imaginative Mobility: How Do We Bring the Outside Indoors and What Happens When Mobility Is No Longer Available?; Charles Musselwhite 11. Future Transport Technologies for an Ageing Society: Practice and Policy; David Metz

Scholars of geography and transport ponder complexities and trade-offs in transport policy regarding older people, who tend not be be safe drivers but whose quality of life plummets when they stop driving. Among their topics are older people's travel and its relationship to their health and wellbeing, old age: the main difficulties and vulnerabilities in the transport environment, creating a convivial public realm for an aging population: being a pedestrian and the built environment, cycling after 60, older driver needs and issues: using grounded theory to elicit the driving needs of older people, and virtual and imaginative mobility: how to bring the outside indoors and what happens when mobility is no longer available.