ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the major modes of terrestrial corporeal daily mobilities: public transportation, walking, car driving, and cycling. Public mobility consists mostly of electric and petrol buses of various sizes and types, light trains, metros, trains, and to some degree also taxis. Personal mobilities will include walking in cities, motorcycle riding and cycling and private car driving. The media for public and personal mobilities are referred to in transportation geography as 'collective transportation' and 'individual transportation' respectively. The public sphere of road infrastructure is not fully public for mobility vehicles since its admission and use are not freely available for them even if the fee is paid annually rather than before each particular use of the road system. Three major technologies emerged in the 19th century for the transformation of terrestrial mobilities into mechanized ones: steam engines in the early 1800s, and electric power and internal combustion engines in the latter quarter of that century.
