Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities

Shaw, Jonathan; Heße, Markus

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00382.x

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“…Increasingly, mobility planning and policy are distancing themselves from the simple provision of infrastructures and services [17,18], and this change of paradigm is even more significant for the marginal areas of the urban South. These areas in fact suffer historically from scarce access to urban opportunities, due to their spatial distribution (a matter of land use planning) and a scarce availability of transport connections (an issue of mobility planning).…”

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Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá

Vecchio

2018

Urban Science

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Everyday mobility practices are increasingly an element of interest for urban policy, as well as for suggesting alternative solutions to urban issues. Amongst their manifold contributions, practices can be relevant for securing individuals' access to places and opportunities. They can do so by promoting services and behaviours based on resources that individuals may share between themselves. This role could be significant especially for those settings where the traditional provision of transport services and infrastructures is more difficult, such as in the informal settlements of the urban South. Drawing on these assumption, this paper intends to investigate policy solutions based on mobility practices, as a suitable way to enhance the access to urban opportunities from informal settlements. Policy approaches focused on mobility supply and demand are explored, addressing options such as the coproduction of mobility services and behavioural approaches based on demand matchmaking. A possible operationalization of such approaches is explored in the marginal informal neighbourhoods of Bogotá, considering their accessibility issues, how shared use mobility policies may tackle them, and what features are necessary for the implementation of such measures. The proposed policy measures emerge as suitable operational options that nonetheless require recognition and support by the institutions responsible for urban mobility planning.

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Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá

Vecchio

2018

Urban Science

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“…One of these, 'transport geography' is often caricatured (admittedly from outside the pages of this journal) as being concerned with utilitarian aspects of movement, whilst the other, 'mobilities research', is depicted as being concerned with the aesthetics, experiences and meanings bound up with movement. As Shaw and Hesse (2010) have suggested, such polarised categorisations are unhelpful not least because they mask significant diversity across approaches that might be better conceptualized as being positioned on a continuum. Of course, the long history of 'transport geography' and short story of 'mobilities research' tell of distinct origins, ambitions and engagements.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Geographies of the Passenger

Bissell

Adey

Laurier

2011

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…closer links between transport geography and mobilities researchers. 20 The links between population movement and transport systems have also been explored more fully by some urban historians interested in the contribution of migration to urban growth and suburban development, 21 and there is increased interest in the use of literary sources for the study of mobility. 22 Such contributions are very welcome but there is scope to expand such connections substantially to the mutual benefit of all disciplines concerned with human movement.…”

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Connecting historical studies of transport, mobility and migration

Pooley

2017

The Journal of Transport History

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This paper argues that the sub-disciplines of transport history, migration history and mobilities studies too rarely interact directly with each other, and that there is much to be gained from the integration and cross-fertilisation of different approaches. Migration historians rarely directly consider the modes of transport used to travel, and although there has been increased interaction between transport historians and mobilities scholars in recent years the full potential of such interactions is yet to be exploited. The experience of travelling, and the convenience of the modes of transport used, can significantly influence later decisions about migration and mobility. This paper calls for a greater focus on such topics and explores some of the potential benefits.

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Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities

Cited by 119 publications

References 54 publications

Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá

Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá

Introduction to the Special Issue on Geographies of the Passenger

Connecting historical studies of transport, mobility and migration

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