About the Authors

Jayanta Basu is a Faculty Member of the Technical University Berlin and an expert on transport in Calcutta. He is the author of several studies of rail and urban transport, including ‘The Underground Railway System in Calcutta’ in World Transport Policy and Practice, 3, 3, 1997.

Kerry Hamilton is Professor of Transport Studies at the University of East London. She has written widely on social aspects of transport policy, especially women and transport. Her publications include The Public Transport Gender Audit (with Susan Hoyle and Linda Jenkins) www.uel.ac.uk/womenandtransport 1999, Women and Transport (with Linda Jenkins) 1991, Moving Cities in Unsettling Cities (J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke eds) 1999, and she is coeditor of Travel Sickness (1992). Her current work includes research on transport and ageing, and transport and access to health care.

Marco Hüttenmoser is Director of the Research Centre for Child and Environment, Muri, Switzerland and Researcher at the Marie Meierhofer Institute for the Child, Zurich. He publishes the journal And Children and has research interests in a variety of aspects of how children relate to their environments including the meanings of urban space for their everyday life and development.

Suzanne McDonald-Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at University College, Northampton. Her research interests include political identities and beliefs, social movements and the European Union. She has ridden a bike since her teens and published extensively on bikers.

Cathy McKenzie is an independent Transport Consultant and policy advisor and lives in London. She serves on the Board of Transport 2000, a campaigning organisation for environmental transport and was also a Board Member of SERA, an environmental pressure group, until recently.

Amanda Root is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Gloucestershire and formerly worked as a Research Officer at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford. She is a Member of the Social and Economic Factors of Transportation Committee of the Transportation Research Board. Recent publications include ‘Transport and Communications’ in Twentieth Century British Social Trends, (ed. A.H. Halsey with J. Webb) (2000) and ‘Rural Transport After the Deregulation of Buses’ in Privatization and Deregulation of Transport, (2000).

The late K.H. Schaeffer was a Lutheran Minister, a Professor of Philosophy, a sampling statistician and an operations analyst. He also worked for the U.S. Transportation Systems Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Operations research Society, the Transportation Research Board and the Philosophy of Science Association.

Elliott Sclar is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York. He has published widely in the areas of urban economic development, transportation and public service economics. His recent work includes: You Won't Always Get What You Pay for: the Economics of Privatization, (2000) and ‘One More Chance: Cities and the Twenty-First Century Economy’ in (R. Marshall, ed.) Restoring Broadly Shared Prosperity (2000).

Mimi Sheller is a Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University. Her interests include questions of mobility, democracy, and the formation of public spheres, as well as colonial and postcolonial gender and racial orders in the Caribbean. Her work includes: ‘The Mechanisms of Mobility and Liquidity’ (available at www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/msheller.html); and ‘Publics in History’ Theory and Society 28, (1999). She has published two books ‘Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica’ (Macmillan, 2000) and ‘Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies’ (Routledge 2002); and is co-editing ‘Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration’ (Berg, forthcoming).

Juliet Solomon is Senior Research Associate at Transport Research and Consultancy, University of North London. Before entering the field of transport she worked in education, brought up a family and wrote three books on economic and social topics. She has become widely known on issues concerned with transport users, young people, local transport policy, the environment and public consultation. In 2000 she produced a seminal report ‘Social Exclusion and the Provision and Availability of Public Transport’ for the UK's Department of Transport. Since then she has undertaken a number of projects about mobility and quality of life.

Tom Turrentine is an Anthropologist at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis. His research interests include time and lifestyle, recently the potential to create alternative time-pace zones in transport by limiting car access. He is currently interviewing households about the role of fuel economy in household vehicle purchases. Publications include ‘Adapting Interactive Response Techniques to a Self-Completion Type Survey’ (with K. Kurani) Transportation 25, (1998) and ‘Household adaptations to new personal transport options: constraints and opportunities in household activity space’ (with K. Kurani) in Perpetual Motion: Travel Behaviour Research Opportunities and Applications (Pergamon 2002). Also Tom has collaborated on a new book; Road Ecology: Science and Solutions (Island Press, 2002, forthcoming).

John Urry is Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University. He has written on a range of important topics that are indirectly related to movement, such as philosophy of the social sciences and analyses of social and economic change. In relation to mobility, environmentalism, globalization and the uses and colonialisations of flows and space-time, his published work includes: Global Complexity (2002); The Tourist Gaze (2002 2nd edition); Sociology beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century (2000); and Contested Natures (1998). Some of his papers are available on-line at www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/jurry.html.

John Whitelegg is Professor at York University in the Stockholm Environment Institute and Managing Director of the sustainable transport consultancy, Eco-Logica Ltd. His publications include transport for a Sustainable Society: the Case for Europe (1993); Critical Mass: Transport, Environment and Society in the 21^st Century (1996) and is founder and editor of the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. This Journal is available on-line at http://ecoplan.org/wtpp/wt_title.htm.

Nick Williams was formerly Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Aberdeen and is now an Environmental Consultant. His interests include: urban sustainability and the environmental impact of housing. He is a former Chair of Castlehill Housing Association, a regional housing association based in Aberdeen, and is Policy Convenor of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations.

Paul Willis is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. His research interests include creativity, symbolic work and play, popular culture, shop-floor cultures and sub-cultures and ethnographic methods. His publications include Common Culture (1993); The Youth Review (1988) and the landmark study Learning to Labour: a study of why working-class kids get working-class jobs (1978).