Compromise & constraint: Examining the nature of transport disability in the context of local travel.

This paper examines the question of 'what is transport disability?' It argues that research on transport disability gains depth and value by making stronger links with the major developments in theoretical understandings of disability from the last twenty-five years. Priestley's (1998) four-fold typology of disability theory provides a framework for exploring the complex and contingent nature of transport disability, using qualitative research into disabled people's experience of local transport in Swansea, UK. (A)