Mobilities, Design and Passenger Experiences

Samuel Mutter is Postdoctoral Researcher on the Data Stories project at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of several articles on the politics of mobilities, public transport, and urban infrastructure, including in the journals Mobilities, Progress in Human Geography, and City.Peter Merriman is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (co-edited 2014), Mobility and the Humanities (co-edited 2018), Space (2022), and The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Geographies (co-edited 2026).

• Introduction: Mobilities, design and passenger experiences 1. ‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations 2. Are airports like cities? Affordances and people’s micro embodied interactions during the arrival experience 3. A passenger service revolution? Transport design and passenger experience on Tokyo’s urban railway network, c. 1945–2010 4. ‘Squeezing in’: body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China 5. Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system 6. Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters 7. Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node Afterword: ‘Designing’ mobilities