Monthly Archives: December 2019

Why do we travel? Distance to rural services and the need for rural journeys

Posted on December 20, 2019 by WDC Insights

Understanding the reasons rural dwellers travel is essential to ensuring we can take focused, effective, and fair climate action and aid a transition to low carbon rural regions. In this the second blog post examining data on travel and journeys … Continue reading →

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Rural Journeys and Travel: what do we know about the Western Region?

Posted on December 19, 2019 by WDC Insights

Rural people are more reliant on car based transport, they have less available public transport and tend to travel greater distances.  Rural dwellers’ transport and travel patterns need to be central to our climate action planning. There must be detailed … Continue reading →

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Public Consultation on Transport and Sustainable Mobility Policy

Posted on December 13, 2019 by WDC Insights

Introduction The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has opened a public consultation to review Ireland’s sustainable mobility (active travel and public transport) policy. Sustainable Mobility refers to active travel, such as walking and cycling and public transport (e.g. bus, … Continue reading →

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Does a Rising tide lift all Boats? A look at the latest CSO data on Poverty and access to Services

Posted on December 6, 2019 by WDC Insights

The CSO released the latest data on Income and Living Conditions (Survey on Income and Living Conditions SILC) last week, see here. The headline figures indicate a continued rise in incomes between 2017 and 2018 which in turn was higher … Continue reading →

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