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

Session

Identity, Power and Justice in Mobility Transitions

PS 12

25 Sept 2024, 14:30

Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Identity, Power and Justice in Mobility Transitions

• Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland)

34. Cycle Highways and Inclusive Infrastructure: New Imaginaries, or Old Frames of Reference?

Manon Eskenazi (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées)

25/09/2024, 14:30

Paper

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...

47. Keeping socio-technical transitions equitable: freight vehicle electrification in and around North America’s largest inland port

Julie Cidell (University of Illinois)

25/09/2024, 14:45

Paper

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...

25. No change in mobility transition without including the gender perspective

Brigitte Wotha (FH Kiel)

25/09/2024, 15:05

Paper

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...

31. Some aspects of socio-spatial justice in urban mobility transitions in Tbilisi, Georgia

Giorgi Kankia (Linköping University)

25/09/2024, 15:20

Paper

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...