After the Second World War, the bicycle was surpassed by the car as the dominant mode of individual transportation in most Western countries. Since the 1970s, however, bicycle use has again gained some support both from the general public and from governments. In the last two decades national governments and cities throughout the Western world, from Norway to Australia and the United States to Germany, as well as the European Union, have launched policy statements and programs aimed at promoting cycling. Policy documents show much optimism about the possibilities to increase the bike’s modal share in transport by means of infrastructural and social engineering. These policy plans have enhanced social scientific and traffic engineering research into bicycle use and its facilitation.
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Bicycle Research between Bicycle Policies and Bicycle Culture
Harry Oosterhuis
In Mobility in History
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 20–36 (17 total)
Forced Immobility
Undocumented Migrants, Boats, Brussels, and Islands
Godfrey Baldacchino
.8977E); these constitute international waters in the central Mediterranean sea, just outside the territorial zone of Malta, a small island state and the smallest member state of the European Union (EU). They did so for forty days, thus matching both the
A Brief History of Smart Transportation Infrastructure
Kathleen Frazer Oswald
enable social sorting akin to tiered Internet service; 21 it could also enable remote stopping, a feature that a leaked 2014 European Network of Law Enforcement Technologies document proves the European Union Police are interested in. 22 Such
Book Reviews
Tristan Josephson, Marcin B. Stanek, Tallie Ben Daniel, Jeremy Ash, Liz Millward, Caroline Luce, Regine Buschauer, Amanda K. Phillips, and Javier Caletrío
immediate postwar period, and each of the subsequent chapters proceeds across the late twentieth century to the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht, which created the European Union. Chapter 1 looks at the youth hosteling movement, specifically the role of the
Aeromobilities in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Weiqiang Lin
of society had repeatedly tested positive for the virus because of their—or their contacts’—itinerancy. 15 Similarly, when the Trump administration banned travel from the European Union (EU) on 13 March, the measure had attracted an inordinate amount
The Contribution of Car Sharing to the Sustainable Mobility Transition
Emma Terama, Juha Peltomaa, Catarina Rolim, and Patrícia Baptista
://mobilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Why-Should-Local-Governments-Care-About-Carsharing-Sept-2013.pdf . 13 Eurostat, Energy, Transport and Environment Indicators: 2015 Edition (Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2015). 14 European Commission, Action Plan
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The Algorithmics and Biopolitics of Race in Emerging Smart Border Practices and Technologies
Tamara Vukov
bodily traits, this set of technologies ranges from the digital fingerprints that make up the European Union’s Eurodac database, which seeks to prevent “asylum shopping” by tracking asylum seekers’ movements, to the DNA testing imposed on migrant families
Mobile Lives, Immobile Representations
Raili Nugin
each year, around three thousand young people (0.9 percent of the age group seven to twenty-six) move from rural to urban areas. However, young people also leave Estonia, looking for better employment opportunities in other European Union countries. In
All for a Container! Return Migration, Transport Technologies, and Love Affairs
Alessandro Jedlowski
Marie Curie/Cofund postdoctoral fellowship funded by the European Union and the University of Liege and the author wishes to thank these institutions for their kind and generous support. To the Nigerian couple that inspired this article, warm thanks for