TRACK 13: Transport Planning and Mobility Policies: Available and Affordable Transportation

Co-chairs: Angela Hull, Morten Skou Nicolaisen

Spatial mobility is key prerequisite for access to space-related opportunities like jobs and facilities for education, health, services and leisure-time activities. Our urban systems evolved in ways that count on mobility to increase. New transportation infrastructures allow for faster and higher-capacity services but they often also increase the disparities between those places and people that are served and those not served. Is the ESDP idea of equal access to opportunities and facilities for all citizens of EU countries still viable? Is it economically sustainable? Is planning still responsible for it?