What moves us (tomorrow)?

Annika Busch-Geertsema, Thomas Klinger, Martin Lanzendorf
Where is actually mobility policy?
A critical analysis of the deficits and chances of German policy and research on traffic and mobility

Abstract

The digitalisation of everyday life and of production, demographic change, new social values or climate and resource policy are only some of the great social challenges which German transport policy and research cope with only insufficiently. At present, the transition from mobility research which is overwhelmingly dominated by engineering science and economics towards a trans-disciplinary mobility research is proceeding at present, although it is slow and so far without an appropriate institutionalisation of research capacities. In politics, by contrast, the transition from an infrastructure- and technology-driven transport policy towards an innovative, comprehensive mobility policy cannot be perceived. Fundamental requirements for the necessary change towards an innovative mobility policy and research are a conception of mobility as a cross-sectional theme of politics, a new mobility research initiative for the creation of adequate foundations of knowledge, the formulation of a mobility strategy as well as the preparedness to venture new things in experiments and to implement them.

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