Emerging mobilities: New practices, new needs

Abstract:

This chapter introduces new research findings on mobility practices in Italy that suggest a transformative nexus for explaining the role of mobility in contemporary cities. Superseding simplified interpretations of mobility as movement through space, this chapter describes emerging mobility practices and their temporal space variability to highlight socio-economic and lifestyle transformations, with particular attention on long-distance daily commuting (LDC). As an emerging form of work-related mobility, LDC is the result of the combined effects of an evolving labour market, that requires more and more flexibility while also subjected to increasing degrees of uncertainty, as well as of the territory and the transport and communication networks that allow the lengthening of travel. The interest in these mobility practices concerns the conditions that determine them, the consequences in lifestyle and in the uses of a territory and its networks. Through a sequence of quantitative analyses, supported by complementary and qualitative surveys and several interviews, the chapter analyses the emerging needs, times and conditions of using spaces and networks. It also examines the intensity of interactions activated by these practices that question traditional mobility services and provisions, and generate emerging new goods and services.

Año de publicación:

2019

Keywords:

• Reversibility
• Long distance commuters
• Transport services
• Mobility practices

Fuente:

scopus