ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors focus on changes towards sustainable personal mobility based on implemented cases and desktop research analysed from a system perspective with an explicit role for the user and/or consumer. Mobility and transport are areas that have already been studied intensively in the past from varying angles, resulting in a wide body of available literature. Important socioeconomic meta-trends that had and still have an important influence on this total demand for mobility they are an increasing population as a result of greater life expectancy, Increase in double-income households, Internationalisation and globalisation. The provision of mobility infrastructure has always been considered an important task for national states and other public authorities. Economists have argued that mobility infrastructure is an important prerequisite for economic growth and development for overall society. Mobility infrastructure has the character of a public good to be freely used by everybody as long as they pay for it through direct taxes or tickets per usage.
