Metering motorbike mobility: informal transport in transition?

Sengers, Frans; Raven, Rob

doi:10.1080/09537325.2013.870991

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“…The number of studies using the MLP in a passenger transport context is increasing rapidly (e.g., [19,20,39,[46][47][48]), although most focus on specific niches, such as electric vehicles [43,48,49]. Nonetheless, at least two studies have discussed a broader range of niches in contemporary passenger mobility.…”

Section: Sociotechnical Transitions and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

Schwanen

2015

Sustainability

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Cities are increasingly seen as the places where innovations that can trigger a sociotechnical transition toward urban mobility are emerging and maturing. Processes such as peak car, rail renaissance and cycling boom manifest themselves particularly in cities, and success stories of cities experimenting with specific types of low-energy mobility abound in the academic literature. Nonetheless, innovation is known to be a precarious process requiring favorable circumstances. Using document analysis and in-depth interviews, this study examines the nature of low-energy innovation in the everyday mobility of people in two UK cities with favorable conditions for a transition away from fossil fuels-Brighton and Oxford. It shows that clear differences exist between the two cities in the sorts of innovation that emerge and diffuse as a result of path dependencies, local politics, and financial support from supra-local governments and agencies. While low-energy mobility currently has substantial momentum in both cities, the majority of low-carbon innovations in urban mobility are incremental rather than radical in nature, and their future is often imbued with uncertainty. The autonomy of small-and medium-sized cities as agents in bringing about transformational change toward low-energy urban mobility should not be overestimated.

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Section: Sociotechnical Transitions and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

Schwanen

2015

Sustainability

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“…More broadly, insights from Kampala concerning two‐wheeled modes of transport are relevant to all cities that are struggling to move away from automobility (Sengers & Raven, ). Our findings present a relatively positive picture of bodas in Kampala compared with studies of motorcycle taxi drivers in West Africa (Olvera et al., ), and invites comparative research to understand the role played by informal transport elsewhere.…”

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Towards a geography of informal transport: Mobility, infrastructure and urban sustainability from the back of a motorbike

Evans

O’Brien

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Informal transport is vital to billions of people living in rapidly growing cities in the Global South, yet is increasingly marginalised as governments legislate against modes of transport that do not conform to ideals of the “modern city.” Using an innovative combination of GPS and qualitative methods, this paper investigates how the estimated 145,000 boda‐boda motorcycle taxis in Kampala, the rapidly growing capital of Uganda, provide mobility and income for its inhabitants. While careful not to over‐romanticise the informality of African cities, we argue that there is a pressing need to understand the contribution that uniquely adapted local transport solutions like motorcycle taxis make to the sustainability of the planet's most rapidly growing cities. The paper shows how mobile methods reveal the ways in which informal transport weaves the city and the lives of its residents together, and proposes a research agenda to make informal urban transport and the kinds of mobility it enables more visible within debates concerning the future of cities.

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“…Berkhout et al, 2010;Bulkeley et al, 2013Bulkeley et al, , 2014aSengers and Raven, 2014). A consequence is that they were not positivist experiments designed to provide evidence through statistical analysis, but aimed instead at proof of concepts and the initiation of learning.…”

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Experiments in Climate Governance. Lessons from a Systematic Review of Case Studies in Transition Research

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SWPS 2015-36 (December) DisclaimerThe works available here are the responsibility of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of other SPRU researchers. As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions. Guidelines for authorsPapers shall be submitted in pdf or Word format. They should contain a title, an abstract, and keywords. Papers should be submitted to one of the Editors, who will process them and send them to the appropriate Associate Editor. Two members of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written review within three weeks. The revised versions of the paper, together with a reply to the reviewers, should be sent to the Associate Editor, who will propose to the Editors its publication on the series. When submitting the authors should indicate if the paper has already undergone peer-reviewing, in which case the Associate Editors may decide to skip internal review process. The SPRU Working Paper Series aims to accelerate the public availability of the research undertaken by SPRU-associated people of all categories, and exceptionally, other research that is of considerable interest within SPRU. It presents research results that in whole or part are suitable for submission to a refereed journal, to a sponsor, to a major conference or to the editor of a book. Our intention is to provide access to early copies of SPRU research. AbstractExperimentation has been proposed as one of the ways in which public policy can drive sustainability transitions, notably by creating or delimiting space for experimenting with innovative solutions to sustainability challenges. In this paper we report on a systematic review of articles published between 2009 and 2015 that have addressed experiments aiming either at understanding decarbonisation transitions or enhancing climate resilience. Using the case survey method, we find few empirical descriptions of real-world experiments in climate and energy contexts in the scholarly literature, being observed in only 25 articles containing 29 experiments. We discuss the objectives, outputs and outcomes of these experiments noting that explicit experimenting with climate policies could be identified only in 12 cases. Based on the results we suggest a definition of climate policy experiments and a typology of experiments for sustainability transitions that can be used to better understand the role of and learn more effectively from experiments in sustainability transitions.

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Metering motorbike mobility: informal transport in transition?

Cited by 48 publications

References 34 publications

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

Towards a geography of informal transport: Mobility, infrastructure and urban sustainability from the back of a motorbike

Experiments in Climate Governance. Lessons from a Systematic Review of Case Studies in Transition Research

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