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Urban Mobility
How the IPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything
Shauna Brail (Edited by), Betsy Donald (Edited by)
9781487550592
Hardback, published 31 October 2024
354 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm, 0.6 kg
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.
List of Figures Section I: Setting the Stage 1. Mobility Changes in the 21st Century City: How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything Section II: The Big Picture – Framing the Questions 2. The Impacts of COVID Policies, Restrictions, and Behavioural Shifts on Urban Canadians 3. Cities in Crisis: COVID, Conflict, and Climate Change 4. Urban Mobility and the Digital Economy: Capturing the Experiences of Canadian Cities 5. Emerging Mobility Technologies and Transportation Systems in Canadian Cities 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 7. E-Scooter Sharing as Hope or Hype? Bridging Transportation Equity Divides in Calgary 8. Bike Share Toronto: Building a Network to Meet the Demands of COVID and Beyond 9. Montreal’s Digital Mobility Ecosystem: A Place-based Story of a City undergoing a Mobility Transition 10. Examining Pandemic Pivots: From Ride Hailing to Food-hailing Section IV: Governing Mobility 11. Integrated Mobility and the Governance of Urban Transit 12. Regulating Autonomous Vehicles: Lessons from U.S. Cities 13. The Evolution of Ride Hailing Regulation in Canadian Cities: COVID-19 and Policy Convergence 14. Mobility-as-a-Service: A Platform Solution in Search of a Business Model Section V: Moving Mobility Studies Forward 16. Conclusion Index
List of Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword/Preface
Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald
Gabriel Cavalli and Anita M. McGahan
Tom Hutton
Tara Vinodrai
Lisa Lorena Losada Rojas and Eric J. Miller
Matthew Palm and Steven Farber
Vivian Kong and Agnieszka Leszczynski
Spencer McNee and Eric J. Miller
Moe Hashemi, Hamed Motaghi, and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald
Elena Gorachinova, Lisa Huh, and David A. Wolfe
Yuko Aoyama and Luis F. Alvarez León
Austin Zwick, Mischa Young, and Zachary Spicer
John Lorinc
Betsy Donald and Shauna Brail