Introduction

Emerging interest in social issues related to transport in cities facing rapid demographic and socioeconomic transitions has led to increasing interest in the relationships between well-being and transport disadvantage. However, unpacking such links has been elusive at best, and mainstream research has not embraced the particularities and diversities of Global South cities as research settings. Most research has focused on subjective approaches to well-being and ideas of satisfaction with and quality of life.

Purpose

We propose a well-being framework tailored to the specific characteristics derived from transport problems faced by low-income urban dwellers. This concept, Transport Well-being, attempts to shed light on how transport may affect components of well-being such as access to key opportunities, ability to enjoy the built environment and security while travelling. We build on the person-centred framework (White, 2010), to examine Transport Well-being in its relational, material and subjective dimensions.

Methods

We use a quantitative dataset of a randomly selected sample of 570 adults in low-income informal settlements in the periphery of the cities of Abuja, Kaduna and Ibadan in Nigeria. Data is analysed using a structural equation model (SEM), which seeks to explain the links between second-level latent variable Perceived Transport Advantage/Disadvantage and Transport Well-being.

Results

We find a strong correlation between Perceived Transport Advantage/Disadvantage and Transport Well-being (0.652) with a model specification that reflects statistically significant associations, while finding marked differences between the three cities analysed. This suggests that incorporating multiple dimensions of transport and well-being and contextual issues of the Global South can lead to different interpretations of transport-related well-being and its relation with social and transport disadvantage.

Conclusions

The structural equation model enabled us to incorporate variables that captured the spirit of conceptualisations of transport disadvantage and transport well-being and to explore their links under context-specific conditions for comparable population. Findings can inform differentiated policy definition and prioritization in contexts with limited resources and structural deficits in access and connectivity. Such a result is useful to de-construct the effects and intensity of urban transport as mediating factor in well-being.

中文翻译：

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揭开社会处境不利社区的交通与福祉之间的联系：尼日利亚低收入社区的结构方程法

介绍

在面临快速的人口和社会经济转型的城市，人们对与交通运输相关的社会问题的兴趣日益浓厚，这导致人们对福祉与交通运输劣势之间的关系越来越感兴趣。但是，打开这种联系充其量是难以捉摸的，并且主流研究还没有将全球南方城市的特殊性和多样性作为研究背景。大多数研究集中于主观幸福感方法以及对满意度和生活质量的看法。

目的

我们提出了一个针对因低收入城市居民所面临的交通问题而产生的特定特征的福利框架。“运输福祉”这个概念试图阐明交通运输可能如何影响福祉的组成部分，例如获得重要机会，在旅途中享受建筑环境的能力和安全性。我们以人为中心的框架（White，2010年）为基础，以关系，物质和主观方面研究运输福祉。

方法

我们使用在尼日利亚阿布贾，卡杜纳和伊巴丹等城市外围的低收入非正式住区随机抽取的570名成人样本作为定量数据集。使用结构方程模型（SEM）分析数据，该模型试图解释第二级潜在变量感知的运输优势/劣势与运输福祉之间的联系。

结果

我们发现感知的交通优势/劣势与交通福祉（0.652）之间存在很强的相关性，该模型规范反映了具有统计意义的关联，同时发现了所分析的三个城市之间的显着差异。这表明，将运输和福祉的多个层面以及全球南方的背景问题纳入考虑，可能导致对与运输有关的福祉及其与社会和运输劣势的关系的不同解释。

结论

结构方程模型使我们能够纳入变量，这些变量反映了运输不利条件和运输福祉的概念化精神，并在特定情况下为可比人口探索了它们之间的联系。在资源有限且访问和连接性存在结构缺陷的情况下，发现可以为差异化的政策定义和优先级提供依据。这样的结果有助于解构城市交通的影响和强度，将其作为福祉的中介因素。