Understanding Personal Mobilities

Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa, Israel

• Contents:Preface xi1 Introduction: personal mobilities and their contexts 11.1 The nature of personal mobilities 11.2 Characteristics of personal mobilities 21.3 Action spaces for personal mobilities 81.4 Personal autonomy in mobility 101.5 Summary 162 Motivations for routine physical personal mobilities 172.1 Introduction 172.2 Movement and travel 192.3 Movement motivations 212.4 Travel motivations 232.5 Designated motivations for frequent travel:commuting and tourism 262.6 Mobility motivations and trip structures 272.7 Mobile persons and their motivations 282.8 Conclusion 293 Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spacesand their implications 313.1 Introduction 313.2 Fixity 323.3 Mobility 333.4 Relationships between fixity and mobility 353.5 Fixity and mobility in virtual space 363.6 Leading implications of fixity and mobility 393.7 Basic human spatial requirements and human activities 393.8 The fixed and mobile humans 413.9 Fixity, mobility, and spatial entities 423.10 Interpretation of human spatial pulses 433.11 Conclusion 444 Proximity, interaction, and distance in physical and virtualpersonal mobilities 464.1 Introduction 464.2 Contemporary interpretations for proximity, distance,and space/location 484.3 The domination of distance and space: pre-Internetsocial-spatial interaction 504.4 Internet and smartphone technologies: distance,location, and space 524.5 The optionality of distance: the perspective of human choice 584.6 The preference for proximity 614.7 Proximity in individuals’ economic activities 624.8 Conclusion 635 Everyday carry of mobility items by individuals 665.1 Introduction 665.2 Everyday carry 685.3 Mobility-related EDC 695.4 Everydayness interpretations for mobility-related EDC items 745.5 Mobility interpretations for mobility-related EDC items 775.6 Conclusion 796 Personal (im)mobilities 816.1 Introduction 816.2 Fixity and immobility 826.3 Immobility and work 846.4 Travel and immobility 846.5 Other forms of immobility 866.6 Digital mobility and immobility 866.7 (Im)mobilities during COVID-19 lockdowns 876.8 Post-COVID-19 immobilities 896.9 Conclusion 927 Personal mobilities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic 947.1 Introduction 947.2 Functional and spatial expressions of pre-COVID-19personal daily mobilities 977.3 Spatial expressions of personal periodical touristic mobilities 987.4 Daily and periodical personal mobilities duringCOVID-19 times 987.5 New habit formations for personal mobilities duringCOVID-19 times 1007.6 Post-COVID-19 daily personal mobilities 1027.7 Post-COVID-19 periodical personal touristic mobilities 1047.8 Conclusion 1058 Newly emerging personal mobility modes and thepost-COVID-19 city 1088.1 Introduction 1088.2 Electric and Internet-based mobilities in the 2020s 1108.3 Comparative parameters for electrified andInternetized road transport and communications 1138.4 Individuals and the electrification and Internetizationof transport and communications 1158.5 Electricity-based and Internet-dependent mobile society 1178.6 Spatial and urban effects of mass adoption of EVs and AVs 1188.7 Conclusion 1209 Summaries and future perspectives 1229.1 Book summary 1229.2 Chapter summaries 1249.3 Future personal mobilities and artificial text production 1319.4 Future mobile persons 133References 135Index 151

‘We are living in hybrid worlds - increasingly. Physical and digital mobilities intermingle, melt together and bring about new forms of sociality and community. Aharon Kellerman has been developing his approach of personal mobilities as a sophisticated framework to understand and analyze the structural transformations of everyday and professional life. Here in this book, he brings together years of research and writing and presents the stunning complexity and plurality of mobilities, space and social life to scholars, students and mobility enthusiasts.’