Conveners
Identity, Power and Justice in Mobility Transitions
- Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland)
In the recent years, the concept of “cycle highways” has been increasingly popular among French cycling activists and experts. First introduced in the 1970s in the Netherlands, cycle highways are a specific kind of cycling infrastructure designed to provide safe and fast cycling trips connecting residential areas to work and study places, especially in the outskirts of cities (Cabral Dias and...
The Chicago region is the largest inland port or dry port in North America, handling as many containers as Rotterdam in a year. While freight trains in the U.S. remain diesel-powered, there is considerable potential to transition to electric trucks for the many local trips that are part of the inland port. This paper is part of a larger research project that investigates how such a transition...
There is already a substantial scientific literature and practical implementation in the area of a climate friendly mobility transition. However, there is limited research detailing how important it is for such a mobility turnaround to recognise the links between transformation and gender issues. In particular, this also involves gender differences and their intersection with other structural...
Mobility planning can be seen as one of the key contributing sectors to achieve fair and just transportation in cities around the world. Scholarship on urban sustainability and transition has seen contributions from indigenous perspectives challenging mainstream assumptions in the field. Studies have previously focused on aspects of informality or the political economy of mobility...
