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This article discusses how it has been contended for a long time that a positive relationship exists between the economic and social well-being of urban residents and the level of their spatial mobility. These arguments are commonly based on the observed low degree of car ownership prevailing among individuals and groups at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale. Furthermore, employment is traditionally held to be the key to socioeconomic status, and it is commonly attested that the unemployed are also the least mobile and that mobility is a major barrier to finding a suitable job. The objective of this article is to evaluate whether poor access, or lack of access, to transport modes hinders the ability of individuals to reach urban activities and to utilize available opportunities, therefore affecting their well-being and causing them to be disadvantaged. This evaluation is made by examining the following: Given the socioeconomic and transportation characteristics of urban residents, including income, age, access to an automobile, and employment status; (1) What are the relations between a set of spatial activities and the mode and frequency of travel to those activities? (2) How do factors like time, cost, and type of transport modes affect activity choice and activity priority? And (3) How do attitudes toward attributes of travel relate to these locational activities?
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