Coworking, a Way to Achieve Sustainable Mobility? Designing an Interdisciplinary Research Project

Patricia Lejoux, Aurore Flipo, Nathalie Ortar, Nicolas Ovtracht, Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec and Razvan Stanica
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Patricia Lejoux: Univ Lyon, ENTPE, LAET (Transport, Urban planning, Economics Laboratory), F-69518 Vaulx-en-Velin CEDEX, France
Aurore Flipo: Univ Lyon, ENTPE, LAET (Transport, Urban planning, Economics Laboratory), F-69518 Vaulx-en-Velin CEDEX, France
Nathalie Ortar: Univ Lyon, ENTPE, LAET (Transport, Urban planning, Economics Laboratory), F-69518 Vaulx-en-Velin CEDEX, France
Nicolas Ovtracht: Univ Lyon, CNRS, LAET (Transport, Urban planning, Economics Laboratory), F-69007 Lyon, France
Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec: Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon 2, LAET (Transport, Urban planning, Economics Laboratory), F-69007 Lyon, France
Razvan Stanica: Univ Lyon, INSA-INRIA, CITI Lab, F-69603 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Stéphanie Souche-Le Corvec

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 24, 1-11

Abstract: Sustainable mobility has been one of the central paradigms of research in the field of transport and mobility for several decades. However, the implications of adopting the concept of “sustainable mobility” for the conduct of interdisciplinary research has been little discussed within the relevant research community. Research in the field of transport and mobility has nevertheless been the setting for major debates in recent years on the question of interdisciplinarity, or even transdisciplinarity, with the emergence of mobility studies as opposed to transportation studies. The objective of this paper is to show, empirically, how researchers who are specialised in mobility and transport issues, but who belong to different disciplines (anthropology, computer science, economics, geomatics, sociology and urban planning) have sought to build an interdisciplinary research project—which is currently ongoing—around the links between the development of coworking, which is a new way of organising work, mobility and sustainability. This paper sets out to highlight cross-fertilisation between disciplines, the issues raised, and the difficulties encountered. As such, it provides an account that is as faithful as possible to our experience of conducting interdisciplinary research in the area of sustainable mobility.

Keywords: mobilities; mobility studies; transport; transportation studies; interdisciplinary; coworking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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