Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research

Ferreira, António; Bertolini, Luca; Næss, Petter

doi:10.1080/23800127.2017.1283121

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“…The new modes and digitalisation, in turn, will result in a new spatial order towards compact cities, mixed land uses and self-contained cities and regions. Average distances travelled are also reduced as distance horizons change partly from the use of cycling and walking and partly from a renewed focus on localism (Ferreira et al 2017). Some services return to rural areas, though moderated by the ability to carry out much personal business online.…”

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Lifestyle, efficiency and limits: modelling transport energy and emissions using a socio-technical approach

2018

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It is well-known that societal energy consumption and pollutant emissions from transport are influenced not only by technical efficiency, mode choice and the carbon/pollutant content of energy but also by lifestyle choices and socio-cultural factors. However, only a few attempts have been made to integrate all of these insights into systems models of future transport energy demand or even scenario analysis. This paper addresses this gap in research and practice by presenting the development and use of quantitative scenarios using an integrated transport-energy-environment systems model to explore four contrasting futures for Scotland that compare transport-related 'lifestyle' changes and socio-cultural factors against a transition pathway focussing on transport electrification and the phasing out of conventionally fuelled vehicles using a socio-technical approach. We found that radical demand and supply strategies can have important synergies and trade-offs between reducing life cycle greenhouse gas and air quality emissions. Lifestyle change alone can have a comparable and earlier effect on transport carbon and air quality emissions than a transition to EVs with no lifestyle change. Yet, the detailed modelling of four contrasting futures suggests that both strategies have limits to meeting legislated carbon budgets, which may only be achieved with a combined strategy of radical change in travel patterns, mode and vehicle choice, vehicle occupancy and on-road driving behaviour with high electrification and phasing out of conventional petrol and diesel road vehicles. The newfound urgency of 'cleaning up our act' since the Paris Agreement and Dieselgate scandal suggests that we cannot just wait for the 'technology fix'.

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Lifestyle, efficiency and limits: modelling transport energy and emissions using a socio-technical approach

2018

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“…Having access in mind, a reverse approach could then be significant: valued opportunities, such as jobs, shops and services, may be brought to the areas that currently have difficulties in accessing them. This attitude would focus on what may be defined as 'immotility' , valuing the local dimension and meaning thus stillness as social capital (Ferreira et al 2017). The limited effectiveness of Bogotá's TransMilenio in guaranteeing access to the city suggests thus that it is not possible to indifferently replicate the same urban mobility strategies on the whole territory of a metropolis.…”

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Democracy on the move? Bogotá’s urban transport strategies and the access to the city

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2017

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Introduction: Everyday urban mobility is fundamental to access the opportunities offered by cities, something required to accomplish one's own aims and guarantee participation in social life. Nonetheless, it is difficult to guarantee significant individual opportunities by fighting mobility-related social exclusion, especially in Global South cities characterized by scarce provision of mobility services and wide presence of urban poverty.Case study: The city of Bogotá has addressed the issues of mobility-related social exclusion by creating a large bus rapid transit system, called TransMilenio. Introduced in 2000, the public transport network was intended to provide a wider access to urban opportunities to a wider share of the urban population. Discussion and evaluation:The TransMilenio has been an influential example due to its ability in addressing the messed mobility of a typical Global South metropolis and in promoting an intervention that requires less financial resources in comparison to other, traditional infrastructures. However, its results appear as partial when discussing the contribution of TransMilenio to urban access, as well as the economic and political implications of implementing such system. Conclusions:While relevant is the alternative form of intervention promoted by TransMilenio, as well as its courage in addressing the apparently untamable mobility of a metropolis like Bogotá, similar strategies in the future should pay more attention to the issues of access-intended both as the possibility to make use of this public transport system, both in terms of reaching urban opportunities.

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“…While some studies have considered the politics of sustainability transitions in general (Avelino et al., ; Chatterton, ), research on mobility transitions more often than not focuses on technological change as a starting point of inquiry. Yet, while technology‐powered sustainable mobility solutions (from electric bicycles to drones used for deliveries) are abundant, transport scholars agree that focusing on technology is insufficient and can be counter‐productive (Banister et al., ; Ferreira et al., ; Temenos et al., ). Little, if any, attention has been paid to parallel theorisations of mobility transitions originating from a concern for social justice.…”

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Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions

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Cresswell

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Scholars have argued that transitions to more sustainable and just mobilities require moving beyond technocentrism to rethink the very meaning of mobility in cities, communities, and societies. This paper demonstrates that such rethinking is inherently political. In particular, we focus on recent theorisations of commoning practices that have gained traction in geographic literatures. Drawing on our global comparative research of low‐carbon mobility transitions, we argue that critical mobilities scholars can rethink and expand the understanding of mobility through engagement with commons–enclosure thinking. We present a new concept, “commoning mobility,” a theorisation that both envisions and shapes practices that develop fairer and greener mobilities and more inclusive, collaboratively governed societies. Our analysis introduces three “logics” of mobility transition projects. First, the paper discusses how a logic of scarcity has been a driver for mobility planning as the scarcity of oil, finance, space, and time are invoked across the world as stimuli for aspiring to greener, “smarter,” and cheaper mobilities. The paper then identifies two responses to the logic of scarcity: the logics of austerity and the logics of commoning. Austere mobilities are examined to problematise the distribution of responsibility for emissions and ensuing injustices and exclusion in low‐carbon transitions. The logics of commoning shows a potential to reassess mobility not only as an individual freedom but also as a collective good, paving the way for fairer mobility transitions and a collaborative tackling of sustainable mobility challenges.

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Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research

Cited by 36 publications

References 70 publications

Lifestyle, efficiency and limits: modelling transport energy and emissions using a socio-technical approach

Lifestyle, efficiency and limits: modelling transport energy and emissions using a socio-technical approach

Democracy on the move? Bogotá’s urban transport strategies and the access to the city

Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions

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