Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technic
While our world is characterized by mobility, global interactions, and increasing knowledge, we are facing serious challenges regarding the knowledge of the places around us. We understand and navigat
"Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders
American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries charts the evolution of American art from the 1890s through today. Guided by three main themes--modernism, migration, and mobility--the text highlights the prod
Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the cu
"In Land Use Law and Disability, Robin Paul Malloy argues that our communities need better planning to be safely and easily navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerati
Around the world city and state governments are struggling to fund new public transport infrastructure and to wean themselves off high levels of car use. Increasingly, the challenge is to better use e
In an age when national identities are a subject of popular debate, along with issues of place in relation to immigration, displacement and mobility, it is particularly important that educators are su
We live in a world that is ever on the move, as is increasingly recognised within research on mobilities. Yet studies of mobility have failed to ‘go to sea’ with the same enthusiasm as mobilities asho
A debilitating disease of pain, inflammation, and loss of mobility and quality of life, arthritis takes victims of all ages, from young children to seniors. Usually chronic, the broad term arthritis r
This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies
Since the 1990s, economic and cultural globalization has propelled the transnational mobility of managers and fuelled cross-border careers. Some scholars have argued for the emergence of a new global
Recently intensified global mobility has reinforced the interest for ethnolinguistic diversity and multilingualism in education and society. Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Educa
Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East identifies trends in mobile media use in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and, more broadly, explores their impact on the nature of digital journalism. Mobility
現代交通運輸目的已不僅止於滿足基本移動需求，更肩負帶動產業經濟發展、提升民眾生活品質的責任。面對後疫情時代，大眾生活型態逐漸轉變，對於智慧物流以及自駕載具的需求將會增加，如何透過數據資料分析及導入智慧化應用，提升搭乘公共運輸的便利性、安全性與可靠性及服務品質，必須及早部署應對策略。從環境面來看，少子化、高齡化及都市化對於未來交通運輸帶來結構性的影響，且隨著資通訊技術發展，物聯網、5G、大數據分析、雲端運算、邊緣運算、人工智慧、交通行動服務(Mobility as a Service, MaaS)平台、區塊鏈、無人車聯網、機器人、無人機創新應用、沉浸式虛擬實境等新興科技，對於交通產業及其產品與服務帶來相當大的挑戰與科技創新機會。本次專題首先介紹我國交通科技產業發展方向，並從國際智慧運輸發展看台灣交通科技應用的潛力與展望，作為我國後續交通科技產業發展與創新服務推動之重要參考。另配合行政院「台灣5G行動計畫」與交通部「交通科技產業會報」在智慧交通應用創新落實，將以交通科技產業需求出發，推動5G智慧交通應用實證，由實驗場域引動國內新興智慧交通服務發展，亦聚焦陸、海、空場域之國內外智慧應用服務發展趨勢與案例介紹，探討智慧交通科技應用可能面對的挑戰與議題。最後，初探台灣MaaS產業生態系建構，透過此整合多元運輸服務之整體性系統，以協助提高交通運輸網絡的效率與便利性。並且在全球追求淨零轉型推動綠色交通趨勢下，提出「建立綠色交通旅運憑證，以MaaS連結企業採行綠色交通實現碳中和」之商業模式初步構想，期讓MaaS為使用者帶來更多經濟、社會與環境效益。
This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance.There are currently two predominant myths ci
The Networked Urban Mobilites series resulted from the Cosmobilities Network of mobility research and the Taylor & Francis journal, 'Applied Mobilties.' This three volume set, ideal for mobilties
This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes con
