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- Hysing, Erik, 1977-, et al.
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Compromising sustainable mobility? The case of the Gothenburg congestion tax
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559. ; 58:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Congestion charging is widely considered an effective policy measure to regulate and reduce car traffic demand and associated environmental and health problems in cities. However, introducing restrictive measures to constrain individual choice and behaviour for the common good has often proven difficult. Using a specific case, the Gothenburg congestion tax introduced in 2013, we study the policy process behind the introduction of the tax and assess to what extent green values were compromised along the way. The tax was made possible by co-financing infrastructure investments, including roads, which seemingly contradicts stated goals of reducing car traffic and emissions. We show how the tax was ‘muddled through’ in a top-down political compromise by a grand coalition where different interests could legitimate their support in relation to the achievement of partially conflicting objectives and projects. However, to declare the regulatory goals fully neutralised would be to underestimate the scheme’s direct environmental effects and restrictive potential. Finding a compromise with powerful political and economic interests was necessary to get it off the ground. Once launched, however, it can over time regain its restrictive properties and lead to more profound long-term effects.
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- Vilhelmson, Bertil, 1952, et al.
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What did we do when the Internet wasn’t around? Variation in free-time activities among three young-adult cohorts from 1990/1991, 2000/2001, and 2010/2011
- 2018
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315. ; 20:8, s. 2898-2916
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Comparing the daily time use of three consecutive cohorts of Swedish young adults 20–29years old, we analyse changes in free-time activity patterns over a period when private Information and Communications Technology (ICT) use was introduced, expanded, and went online. We use Swedish Time Use Survey (TUS) data from 1990/1991, 2000/2001 and 2010/2011 and apply covariate analysis, controlling for important socio-economic factors. Our theoretical approach complements a regular displacement/enhancement perspective by emphasizing the role of time elasticities, time-use priorities, and free-time availability (i.e. being time-poor vs time-rich). Results indicate that online time increased considerably, adapting to increased free time. In addition, offline time spent on social activities, activities with other people, reading books and newspapers and offline hobbies consistently declined. TV viewing increased among the time-rich, fuelling overall screen time. Time spent on outdoor physical activity, entertainment, culture, and voluntary work appear unaffected. The balance between in-home and out-of-home time remained unchanged.
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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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The internet and desire to move: the role of virtual practices in the inspiration phase of migration
- 2016
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Ingår i: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. - : Wiley. - 0040-747X. ; 107:3, s. 257-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to the understanding of non-local migration in the digital age by investigating emerging virtual practices in the migration process. We focus on the initial inspiration phase that theoretically defines the attainable reach of individuals considering moving. Using a case-based approach, we distinguish how online information and social contact influence an individual’s early considerations and desires to move elsewhere. We draw on indepth interviews with young adults in Sweden. Our findings characterise how Internet-based information influences the spatial, social, and temporal horizons of inspiration with potential implications for subsequent plans. We find that virtual practices spatially expand these horizons and promote a shift towards insider information. Results further suggest that a flow of information and background knowledge regarding opportunities in other places drives the inspiration phase, extending its duration until it is more or less continuous. Reduced information friction increases the scope for impulsiveness to spark migration inspiration and intentions.
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- Vilhelmson, Bertil, 1952, et al.
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Does the Internet encourage people to move? Investigating Swedish young adults’ internal migration experiences and plans
- 2013
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 47:June, s. 209-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Internet offers personalized and constantly updated information about opportunities and facilities at places far away. It stimulates distant personal contact and interaction via social media. Attention is thus increasingly being paid to the relationships between Internet use and traditional, physical forms of spatial interaction and movement. This paper explores possible associations between Internet use and internal migration, based on a 2009 survey of 750 young adults in Sweden. We explore Internet-based information seeking practices associated with actual migration experiences and with current plans to move to another place. Results indicate that many recent movers believed that the Internet influenced and facilitated their decision to move, and somewhat influenced their choice of destination. Many have also developed Internet-based communication practices that involve plans to migrate in the near future. Results suggest that the Internet reinforces intentions to move for a sizeable group, and also affects their migration motives.
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- Larsson, Anders, 1961, et al.
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Accessibility Atlas to Analyse Regional Acessibility to Labour in the Food Sector
- 2014
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Ingår i: COST Action TU1002 – Assessing Usability of Accessibility Instruments. - Amsterdam : The Cost Office. - 9789090282121 ; , s. 115-121
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Presents the results of an experiential workshop with local planning practitioners. These practitioners first experienced and then reflected on the usability of accessibility instruments.
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- Loukopoulos, Peter, 1975, et al.
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Mapping the potential consequences of car-use reduction in urban areas
- 2005
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Ingår i: Journal of Transport Geography. ; 13, s. 135-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policy measures managing the demand for private car use are contemplated in urban areas all over the world. A first step in evaluating the effectiveness as well as the interrelated sociospatial consequences of travel demand manage-ment (TDM) measures is determining how their implementation changes the travel options faced by households in different segments. Geocoded travel diary data from Gothenburg, Sweden, are analysed with the aim of determining the number and type of trips by car to the city centre that would be affected by the introduction of traffic regulations varying spatially and temporally. Logistic re-gression analyses are performed to identify effects on different trip purposes, as well as individual and household characteristics related to changes in travel op-tions. The possible application of the results within a policy context and to other urban areas is discussed along with the potential implications for research into adaptation strategies adopted in response to the implementation of TDM meas-ures.
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- Thulin, Eva, 1974, et al.
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Combining mobile and stationary ICT use - Implications for everyday life
- 2014
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Ingår i: The International Time-Geography Days 2014, May 14-16, Linköping.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Sweden, people now in general spend almost one hour per day using the internet for private purposes, at home or on the move. Use is increasingly being mobile further challenging established space-time constraints. Accordingly, this paper investigates how information- and communication technologies (ICTs) affect other forms of human mobility, social interaction and daily use of time and space. We focus on displacement and complementary effects as regards other activities and locations employing a nuanced view of use and users of technology.
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