Mobile Individual

Thomas Buhler is Professor of Urban Planning at the University Marie and Louis Pasteur, France. His research focuses on urban lifestyles in relation to daily mobility, strategies of urban planning stakeholders, and participatory methodologies in urban planning.

• Introduction. The Mobile Individual or the Progressive Complexification of an Analytical Model xiThomas BUHLERList of Figures xixList of Tables xxiPart 1. The Mobile Individual and Daily Time 1Chapter 1. Mobility and Everyday Life 3Vincent KAUFMANN1.1. Introduction 31.2. The diversity of spatio-temporalities in everyday life 31.3. Three facets of mobility 61.4. The valorization of reversibility: an organizing principle of everyday life? 121.5. References 13Chapter 2. Time Experienced in Everyday Mobility: Perceptions, Uses and Values 17Thomas BUHLER2.1. Introduction 172.2. Research gradually becoming interested in the time spent on everyday travel 182.3. Perception of travel times: principle of general relativity 232.4. Travel and its uses: a busy time 242.5. Values at stake 312.6. Conclusions 362.7. References 37Chapter 3. Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space 43Hadrien COMMENGES and Julie VALLÉE3.1. Introduction 433.2. Estimating the daytime population 453.3. Characterizing the social composition of daytime populations 483.4. Defining the exposure of individuals based on places and times of presence 563.5. Conclusion 593.6. References 59Part 2. Mobile Socializations, or the Effects of the Long Term 65Chapter 4. Mobility Trajectories and Biographies: A Valuable Hybridization 67Philippe GERBER4.1. Introduction 674.2. From life course to changes in daily mobility 694.3. Evolution of mobility and other areas of the life course 764.4. Towards a planning tool? Aggregate or individual-centered approaches to mobility biographies 784.5. Conclusion 804.6. References 82Chapter 5. Gendered Cycling Socializations of Future Mobile Adults 89David SAYAGH5.1. Introduction 895.2. A process in action from a very young age 915.3. A process reinforced during adolescence 945.4. A process to be analyzed intersectionally and contextually 995.5. Conclusion 1035.6. References 104Chapter 6. Cycling in the City: Situated Practices and Unequal Policies 113Matthieu ADAM6.1. Introduction 1136.2. When cycling returns to the city 1196.3. Cycling mobility and socio-spatial inequalities 1236.4. Towards new research on cycling in the city 1276.5. Conclusion 1336.6. References 134Part 3. Mobile Subjectivities: Representations and Effects of Habits 143Chapter 7. Modal Choice and Representations of Transport Modes 145Florian MASSE and Samuel CARPENTIER-POSTEL7.1. Introduction 1457.2. Stages of modal choice analysis 1467.3. Application to the choice of modes for leisure mobility 1517.4. Conclusion 1607.5. References 162Chapter 8. Not Just a Detail: Modal Habit as Central to Everyday Mobility 167Julia-Pearl AVELINE and Thomas BUHLER8.1. Which "habit" are we talking about? 1708.2. Why the interest in habits when studying everyday mobility? 1768.3. How to measure the force of a modal habit 1818.4. The driving habit at the center of attention 1838.5. Research conclusions and operational conclusions 1918.6. References 193Chapter 9. Responsive Adaptations to Traffic Congestion: A Matter of Habit? 199Thomas BUHLER and Gaële LESTEVEN9.1. Introduction 1999.2. A simulation game to collect drivers' adaptations to congestion 2029.3. Results 2069.4. Discussion 2119.5. Conclusion 2129.6. References 213Conclusions. Three Avenues for IncreasedConvergence of Analytical Models 217Thomas BUHLERGlossary 221List of Authors 223Index 225