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Structuring Sustainable Mobility: A Critical Issue for Geography
Author(s) -
Frändberg Lotta,
Vilhelmson Bertil
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00306.x
Subject(s) - structuring , economic geography , perspective (graphical) , dimension (graph theory) , space (punctuation) , sociology , sustainable development , geography , regional science , environmental planning , political science , computer science , pure mathematics , law , operating system , mathematics , artificial intelligence
This article presents a geographical perspective on the concept of sustainable mobility. Meeting the challenge of sustainable mobility is a complex matter of promoting sustainable transportation technologies, influencing people’s travel behaviour and transforming society’s social and spatial structures. Arguably, a geographical perspective focuses on the latter, structural dimension of this interplay: how societal demands regarding people’s mobility are continuously shaped and reshaped, and how structuration processes can be transformed in more sustainable directions. This includes the transformation of: (i) physical structures, such as the spatial organization (e.g. the location of activities, land use and transportation systems) of cities and regions, (ii) social contacts and networks distributed in space and time and (iii) cultures of regularly held beliefs, norms and expectations regarding people’s abilities to travel fast and far for any purpose.