Re-Thinking mobility poverty
The recently-terminated HiReach project has just published a book entitled “Re-thinking Mobility Poverty. Understanding User´s Geographies, Backgrounds and Aptitudes”. TRT, the HiReach coordinator, directly contributed of the writing several chapters.
IThe book, which is based on the analytical phase of project, seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes.
It examines the social construction of mobility poverty by delving into mobility patterns and needs as they are differently experienced by social groups in different geographical situations and also offers a comparison of the global phenomenon through fieldwork conducted in the six different HiReach study regions.
The book is released in hardcopy by the world’s leading academic publisher Routledge, and can be purchased here.
Open Access is also available here.
Link to the project page.
The European Commission has now published the study on “The impact of TEN-T completion on growth, jobs and the environment” performed by TRT in partnership with M-Five (DE) and Ricardo E&E (UK). The objective of the study is to quantify the impact of the TEN-T core network implementation until 2030, as well as the impact of each of the nine core network corridors separately, on European Union growth, jobs and the environment.
TRT led an international consortium conducting a study on behalf of the EEIG Rhine-Alpine EWIG to asses the impacts that specific improvements on the infrastructure and service on the Rail Freight Corridor Rhine-Alpine may have in terms of modal shift from road to rail. The study focused on three topics selected together with the Railway Undertakings: 1) heavier trains (with 740m trains), 2) faster trains (with a reduction of stops) and 3) more reliable trains (including the role of ETA).