Shih-Lung SHAW, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
Urban mobility has experienced major transformations due to technological advances in recent decades that have increasingly enabled human activities and interactions in a hybrid physical-virtual world. Teleworking and shared mobility services are examples of technologically-enabled urban mobility options that involve activities in both physical space and virtual space. Transportation has served as the means of moving people and goods among different locations in physical space, while information and communications technology (ICT) now enables us to navigate between various places in virtual space. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the shifts of some activities and interactions from physical space to virtual space. Since urban mobility is to help humans fulfill various biological, economic, social, and other needs in our daily lives, conventional transportation studies with a focus on mobility in physical space is conceptually limited for understanding human dynamics and urban mobility. This paper presents a Space-Place (Splatial) framework, which integrates the concepts of absolute space, relative space, relational space, and mental space to overcome the limitations of conventional transportation studies by expanding the concept of space beyond absolute space and physical place. This Splatial framework offers new perspectives and potentials of studying urban mobility in the modern world.
Mots clés : urban mobility|human dynamics|space-place framework
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