Urban Mobility

How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything

Shauna Brail, Betsy Donald (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

354 Seiten

2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5185-8 (ISBN)

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This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities.

Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to respond meaningfully to the climate crisis.

Featuring contributions from leading Canadian and American scholars and researchers, this edited collection traverses disciplines including geography, engineering, management, policy studies, political science, and urban planning. Chapters illuminate novel research findings related to a variety of modes of mobility, including public transit, e-scooters, bike-sharing, ride-hailing, and autonomous vehicles. Contributors draw out the connections between urban challenges, technological change, societal need, and governance mechanisms. The collection demonstrates why the smart phone, COVID-19, and climate present a crucial lens through which we can understand the present and future of urban mobility. The way we move in cities has been disrupted and altered because of technological innovation, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and efforts to reduce transport-related emissions.

Urban Mobility concludes that the path forward requires good public policy from all levels of government, working in partnership with the private sector and non-profits to direct and address the best urban mobility framework for Canadian cities.

Shauna Brail is an associate professor at the Institute for Management and Innovation, cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Betsy Donald is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword/Preface

Section I: Setting the Stage

1. Mobility Changes in the 21st Century City: How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything
Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald

Section II: The Big Picture – Framing the Questions

2. The Impacts of COVID Policies, Restrictions, and Behavioural Shifts on Urban Canadians
Gabriel Cavalli and Anita M. McGahan

3. Cities in Crisis: COVID, Conflict, and Climate Change
Tom Hutton

4. Urban Mobility and the Digital Economy: Capturing the Experiences of Canadian Cities
Tara Vinodrai

5. Emerging Mobility Technologies and Transportation Systems in Canadian Cities
Lisa Lorena Losada Rojas and Eric J. Miller

Section III: Places, Patterns, and Challenges

6. Prospects for Public Transit Equity in the 21st Century: Lessons from COVID-19’s Impacts on Canada’s Largest Metropolis
Matthew Palm and Steven Farber

7. E-Scooter Sharing as Hope or Hype? Bridging Transportation Equity Divides in Calgary
Vivian Kong and Agnieszka Leszczynski

8. Bike Share Toronto: Building a Network to Meet the Demands of COVID and Beyond
Spencer McNee and Eric J. Miller

9. Montreal’s Digital Mobility Ecosystem: A Place-based Story of a City undergoing a Mobility Transition
Moe Hashemi, Hamed Motaghi, and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

10. Examining Pandemic Pivots: From Ride Hailing to Food-hailing
Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald

Section IV: Governing Mobility

11. Integrated Mobility and the Governance of Urban Transit
Elena Gorachinova, Lisa Huh, and David A. Wolfe

12. Regulating Autonomous Vehicles: Lessons from U.S. Cities
Yuko Aoyama and Luis F. Alvarez León

13. The Evolution of Ride Hailing Regulation in Canadian Cities: COVID-19 and Policy Convergence
Austin Zwick, Mischa Young, and Zachary Spicer

14. Mobility-as-a-Service: A Platform Solution in Search of a Business Model
John Lorinc

Section V: Moving Mobility Studies Forward

16. Conclusion
Betsy Donald and Shauna Brail

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2024
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4875-5185-1 / 1487551851
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-5185-8 / 9781487551858
Zustand	Neuware