Essays about: "sustainable personal mobility. transition studies"

Found 1 essay containing the words sustainable personal mobility. transition studies.

  1. 1. A Case Study on the Socio-Technical Configuration of Car-Sharing in the City of Malmö

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Diego Cattolica; [2016]
    Keywords : Innovation; car-sharing; energy; sustainable personal mobility. transition studies; socio-technical systems; socio-technical transitions; social practice theory; multi-level perspective; Malmö; Västra Hamnen; Fullriggaren.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract: Previous research has found car-sharing schemes to have great potential, internationally and locally, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the personal transport sector, and contain significant locally bounded advantages with implications for improved urban sustainable mobility and more efficient land-use. The aim of the paper is to explore how and why shared mobility services, specifically car-sharing, have emerged and grown as a niche-innovation in the context of Malmö, Sweden, and to look at how the presence of car-sharing has impacted the reproduction of mobility patterns among households in the residential area of Fullriggaren. READ MORE