ABSTRACT
This chapter explores current and future smart mobility solutions, looking at how notions of smart transport are often connected to smart cities’ strategies. The chapter discusses how cities worldwide position themselves as ‘smart’ to meet the demanding challenges of climate change and population growth; smart cities aim to provide increasingly diverse city populations with improved mobility solutions. The smart city was invented as a solution to address a variety of escalating problems of traffic congestion, inefficient services, and economic stagnation. It has since become a paradigm for smart living and mobility. The chapter argues that the social, understood as the gendered and diverse, dimensions of ‘daily mobility’ have been neglected in smart city and mobility discourses. In the current technology-driven system, it remains unclear how social factors can be considered or how resources for the inclusion of such aspects will be provided.
