Geographies of Transport and Mobility ― Prospects and Challenges in an Age of Climate Change

Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the 21st Century. In so doing, the book focuses on three devices to introduce readers to the critical debates in transport geography and mobilities research related to climate change. First, Part I provides the necessary context for understanding how personal mobility and the ways in which it relates to everyday living has evolved since the mid-19th Century. This will plot the intricate relationship between new forms of mobile technology, urban planning and design and social practices. Second, Part II will examine how researchers study transport and mobility through an exploration of the different intellectual trajectories of transport geography and its relationship to the mobilities paradigm that has come to dominate some social science disciplines in recent years. In so doing, this second part of the book will focus on two key aspects of personal mobility - the analysis of everyday travel practices and the geographies of tourism and leisure. Third, Part III will outline and discuss the discourse of sustainable mobility that has emerged in recent years and will examine the ways in which social, economic and environmental sustainability can be promoted through different strategies, focusing on the paradigm of behavioural change and then urban design. In this way, the book will aim to build a set of narratives for understanding and analysing personal mobility in the 21st Century and to position mobility within the context of likely major social transformations driven by climate change.

Dr Stewart Barr is Associate Professor of Geography and has worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Exeter since 2001 after completing his PhD in Geography. His current research focuses on critically understanding intellectual and policy discourses on ’sustainable lifestyles’. He has recently completed several ESRC projects on sustainable travel and has recently held grants exploring the role of Transition in developing a sustainable society and also the role of lifecourses in understanding contemporary sustainable lifestyles. Dr Jan Prillwitz is an independent travel behaviour researcher. His main research interests are in sustainable travel, mobility styles, concepts of new mobilities and the role of socio-psychological factors for individual travel decisions. Previously, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, and at the School of Geography, University of Exeter (UK) in a project exploring motives and barriers for adopting more sustainable behaviour. Jan holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Leipzig (Germany). Dr Tim Ryley is a Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies within the Transport Studies Group, in the School of Civil and Building Engineering. He has over seventeen years transport research experience, with expertise in travel behaviour analysis, and transport and climate change issues, across a range of transport applications. Dr Ryley has recently been the principal investigator on two multi-disciplinary EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council projects concerning airport surface access and demand responsive transport. His co-edited book with Dr Lee Chapman, Transport and Climate Change, was published in 2012. Professor Gareth Shaw is Professor of Retail and Tourism Management at the University of Exeter Business School and also currently an Innovation Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management. He was formerly Professor of Human G