O Bike in Melbourne: A plea for more scepticism about disruption and capital, based on what we can know about one dockless bike scheme

Chambers, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2020.07.016

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“…First, a critical examination of professional practices and standards, the transportation planning profession itself, the financialization of infrastructure, and the symbolic meanings and values of specific transportation modes can help us to understand how individual projects are situated within larger political economic discourses. In particular, the main motivation for a transportation project may not be about mobility at all, but rather a "mobility fix" (Enright, 2018, Spinney, 2016; see also Chambers, 2020 on "disruptive" dockless bike schemes). Understanding these underlying motivations may be discouraging (McManus & Haughton, 2020), but it also provides a starting point for challenging existing power relations and making connections between mobility projects and larger issues of structural inequity.…”

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Critical geographies of transport and mobility: Studying power relations through practice, academia, and activism

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Over the last decade, there has been increasing interest among geographers in a critical perspective on studies of transportation and mobility, or studies that take into account the power relations within systems of transportation that produce space, place, mobility, and/or identity. This ever‐growing body of work includes people who might not consider themselves as transportation geographers per se, but nevertheless are expanding geographies of transportation beyond the traditional focus on vehicles, infrastructure, and economics. In this article, we review such work from three different perspectives: critical studies of professional practice, the interdisciplinary approach of Caribbean Studies, and the work of activists and scholar‐activists to connect environmental justice with mobility justice.

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“…For example, the government can formulate relevant policies to guide people to regulate parking, including establishing standards for orderly parking and posting slogans; Policymakers can formulate appropriate measures in the form of incentives to reduce illegal parking of shared bicycle users. At the same time, some scholars encourage policy makers to consider the value and meaning of "shared" platform more carefully [33] .…”

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Data Analysis of Pile-free bike-sharing from Market Status to Operation Management Mode

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Shared travel plays a more and more active role in the emergence of urban traffic, but there is no systematic and perfect combing and analysis on the study of bike-sharing without piles, especially on its operation and management mode. This paper will conduct a comprehensive data analysis on the research of bike-sharing without piles from the individual micro level and the enterprise government level, and explore the research focus and possible subject areas of future research.

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“…When funded by venture capital, in adjacent applications, there is little interest in infrastructure investment (Chambers 2020 ). This funding model also risks undercutting and driving competition away (Brown 2020 ; Dudley et al 2017 ).…”

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Cyclists and autonomous vehicles at odds

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Cugurullo

2022

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Consequential historical decisions that shaped transportation systems and their influence on society have many valuable lessons. The decisions we learn from and choose to make going forward will play a key role in shaping the mobility landscape of the future. This is especially pertinent as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in the form of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Throughout urban history, there have been cyclical transport oppressions of previous-generation transportation methods to make way for novel transport methods. These cyclical oppressions can be identified in the baroque and modernist periods, and a third oppression may occur in the contemporary period. To explore the idea of a third oppression, we focus on the bicycle and outline the history of cycling to understand how historical mode oppression unfolded. We then present several social and political factors that contributed to the oppression of cycling and share recommendations for how to avoid future oppressions including political, social, and design actions for researchers and policymakers to take. This paper argues that priorities for AI-enabled mobility and cyclist needs be advanced in proportion to the extent that they contribute to societal goals of urban containment, public realm, and proximal cities. Additionally, future mobility evolutions should prioritise mobility justice and mode choice over inducing a singular transportation method.

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O Bike in Melbourne: A plea for more scepticism about disruption and capital, based on what we can know about one dockless bike scheme

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Critical geographies of transport and mobility: Studying power relations through practice, academia, and activism

Critical geographies of transport and mobility: Studying power relations through practice, academia, and activism

Data Analysis of Pile-free bike-sharing from Market Status to Operation Management Mode

Cyclists and autonomous vehicles at odds

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