How much infrastructure is required to support decent mobility for all? An exploratory assessment

Doris Virág, Dominik Wiedenhofer, André Baumgart, Sarah Matej, Fridolin Krausmann, Jihoon Min, Narasimha D. Rao and Helmut Haberl

Ecological Economics, 2022, vol. 200, issue C

Abstract: Decarbonizing transport is crucial for achieving climate targets, which is challenging because mobility is growing rapidly. Personal mobility is a key societal service and basic need, but currently not available to everyone with sufficient quality and quantity. The basis for mobility and accessibility of desired destinations is infrastructure, but its build-up and maintenance require a substantial fraction of global resource use. The question arises, how much mobility and how much infrastructure are required to deliver decent, sustainable mobility.

Keywords: Passenger transport; Well-being; Transport poverty; Decent living standards; Transport infrastructure; Stock-flow-service nexus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107511

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