Abstract
The objective of this paper is to establish a comprehensive view of societal trends that have an impact on mobility and logistics in the future. Based on a review of scientific literature, the output of European research projects and reports from consultancies, the result of this investigation provides a broad and comprehensive set of factors that influence, and will influence in the future, mobility and logistics. The set is composed of 29 trends organised under 9 larger categories covering economic issues, societal issues, urbanisation, the environment, the digital society, new business models, safety, security and the legislative framework. The present analysis has greatly benefitted from the concept of liquid modernity developed by Bauman that enabled a broad and complete view on the dynamics of society and mobility. It allows describing linkages between social and economic trends, and between society and technology, especially information and communication technology. Thus, the added value of this contribution is its systematic approach allowing to describe this complex topic in an exhaustive manner while focussing on links and dependencies.
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The Mobility4EU project aims at producing a roadmap for mobility and logistics in 2030 starting from societal needs. The overall objective consists in linking present and future societal trends and needs to existing and emerging transport and mobility solutions. http://www.mobility4eu.eu.
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For a detailed description of trends see L’Hostis et al. (2016).
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The authors thank, Corinne Blanquart, Freek Bos, Annette Brückner, Thierry Coosemans, Laetitia Dablanc, Erzsébet Földesi, Alessia Golfetti, Stefania Grosso, George Holley-Moore, Juho Kostiainen, Jochen Langheim, Gereon Meyer, Linda Napoletano, Cristina Pou, Annette Randhahn, Joachim Skoogberg, Yves Stans, Anu Tuominen, Marcia Urban, Susana Val, Ineke van der Werf for their inputs in this work.
The authors thank Amna Diaz from ILC for language check.
The authors wish to thank the European Commission for the funding of the Mobility4EU project in the framework of the Horizon2020 program (EC Contract No. 690732).
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L’Hostis, A., Chalkia, E., de la Cruz, M.T., Müller, B., Keseru, I. (2019). Societal Trends Influencing Mobility and Logistics in Europe: A Comprehensive Analysis. In: Müller, B., Meyer, G. (eds) Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99756-8_3
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