A degrowth approach to urban mobility options : just, desirable and practical options
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2022.2025769" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2022.2025769</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2025769" target="_blank" >10.1080/13549839.2022.2025769</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A degrowth approach to urban mobility options : just, desirable and practical options
Original language description
Following Illich’s (1974) notion of convivial tools and the distinction he makes between “self-propelled transit” and “motorized transport” of mobility, we apply the emerging paradigm of degrowth to urban mobility. Based on the degrowth literature and Illich’s work, we derive principles and criteria for the mobility of a degrowth society that include institutional, energy and material use, infrastructure, local environmental impacts, social impacts and justice, proximity and speed, and autonomy. To ground our analysis in real-world conditions, we consider the practical perspective of mobility and add another set of criteria: comfort and safety, travel time, monetary cost, and health. We then compare urban mobility options, including recently developed hybrid mobility and sharing schemes. Our results show that, although private means have an advantage in terms of personal practicality, they are not desirable from a degrowth perspective, due to their high social and environmental costs and as constituting a source of urban injustice. Public, hybrid, and self-propelled mobility options would become more practical if such injustices were recognised, and if effective public policies challenged the radical monopoly of cars. Further, hybrid options and sharing/pooling schemes have the potential to reduce the use of private means for metropolitan mobility. The adoption of this degrowth framework can enrich debates on sustainable urban mobility and moves beyond the common proposition of promoting public transport as the solution.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50703 - Transport planning and social aspects of transport (transport engineering to be 2.1)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Local Environment
ISSN
1354-9839
e-ISSN
1469-6711
Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
459-486
UT code for WoS article
000745902400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85123470462