2024 T2M Annual Conference | Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations

Session

Contestations around Mobility and Infrastructures

PS 10

25 Sept 2024, 16:30

Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Contestations around Mobility and Infrastructures

• Mariya Petrova (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)

79. Productive, inclusive and smart? (Un)timely endings of shared cycle schemes in Stockholm, Sweden

Karin Edberg (Linköping University)

25/09/2024, 16:30

Paper

During the last few years, an expansion and diversification of personal transport using small, lightweight, and slow electric or muscle powered vehicles is taking place world-wide. The development implies more vehicles of different types (e.g e-scooters, cargobikes and e-bikes), diverse ownership structures and rhythms, as well as increased electrification. Such so called micromobility options...

38. Protest against new motorways in France and the myth of travel time savings

Emmanuel Munch

25/09/2024, 16:45

Paper

The growing protests against road projects in France reflect a changing attitude to mobility and speed. The high-profile case of the Toulouse-Castres A69 is just one example of the fifty or so local protests that have now come together under the banner of the national coalition "La Déroute des Routes".
As far as transport policy is concerned, these changes in perspective remain largely...

57. Public Transport and the Right to the City in a Medium Sized West German Town

tim zumloh (LWL-Institut für westfälische Regionalgeschichte)

25/09/2024, 17:00

Paper

Within the “variants of change” in the West German contemporary history, the medium sized town Gütersloh in Eastern Westphalia stands for economic success and urban growth. Its economic flagships Miele and Bertelsmann backed a stable development. The city grew in inhabitants and extent because of the influx of workers and due to a municipal district reform at the beginning of the 1970s. This...