Objective
Project summary The project has four main objectives:
- To contribute to an understanding of what is involved in creating a 'sustainable society', through a focus on how moves towards social sustainability impact on social structure. The particular focus of this project is transport and the issue of sustainable mobility.
- With respect to transport systems, to understand how specific transport technologies, those associated with the private car, become deeply embedded or 'buried' in the social structure of given societies.
- To ascertain how such buried technologies distribute environmental risks, consumption costs, and mobility and employment benefits unequally across different social groups.
- To construct a number of scenarios for changing the technology and establish the implications of each for the social redistribution of risks, costs and benefits.
The project is designed as a series of parallel case studies of five medium sized European cities. These cities are chosen to represent both different national contexts and different forms of public transport policy. In each city the national research team will collect data on the politics of car transport, the differential environmental risks and pollution associated with car transport, the number and type of jobs generated by the car system, the understandings of car transport held by particular social groups, and the possibilities of reducing car transport through the use of information technology.
With this empirical information each team will develop scenarios showing the social consequences of alternative forms of transport in its city. These scenarios are designed to stimulate informed public debate and to open policy options towards forms of sustainable mobility.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- social sciences social geography transport public transport
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Ireland
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