Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia – exploring (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobility

ABSTRACT

The development of low-carbon cities calls for a restructuring of their suburban hinterlands, and regional land-use and transport planning has become an instrument to achieve this. However, this restructuring has several social implications and is lived by people, who are expected to develop more sustainable practices. There are disconnections between planning practices and people’s everyday practices, of which the literature has provided little to explore and solve. This paper deals with this by studying how regional low-carbon transport strategies are implemented, translated, and lived in a suburban context, and discusses how disconnections between scales of mobility transitions might be bridged.

KEYWORDS:

• Suburban mobility
• sustainable mobility
• transport planning
• daily mobility

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The work was supported by the Norges Forskningsr?d [255189].