A University of North London female student had this to say:

"I come from the next door neighbourhood, Archway, it was an important consideration in my choice of UNL, I knew the area."

Research conducted by the Greater London Council on Gender and Transport in the 1980s in London revealed that women often experience the travel enviroment as hostile. Similar findings have been found in travel research for ethnic communities and for older persons.

This raises two clear issues for new information communication technologies;

• Question: How do we make the travel enviroment less hostile?
  Answer: With new technology we can create virtual maps which guide the vulnerable traveller through a virtual journey using landmark imagery of the buildings, traffic and people circulation patterns and give information on route frequencies so that the traveller is familiar with the new environment before they ever physically enter it.

• Question: For those with constrained mobility either through physical impairment or social fear, how can education be delivered safely and effectively?
  Answer: Online education services can be delivered with updated visual representations that take the user out of the loop of fear on the changing physical enviroment and keep the user up to date on the most modern knowledge base.

  Distance learning is useful both in the immediate local enviroment and in the delivery of education to remote or distant environments.

  Distance education can overcome social distance constraints as effectively as it can overcome physical distance constraints.
   
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