How the Discourse of Urban Smart Mobility Portrays the Role of Automobility after ’The End of Car Ownership’

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2021-01-05
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Lanamäki, Arto
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The slogan “the end of car ownership” (TEoCO) occurs regularly in the discourse of urban smart mobility. In this article, I examine TEoCO as a micronarrative used for agenda framing purposes. I situate the discourse within the theory of urban fabrics, to argue how cities need to fight car dependence. The TEoCO slogan appears as a seemingly powerful policy and marketing device. The slogan establishes private car use – and the negative externalities of automobility – as the baseline comparison for new digital mobility services. Urban smart mobility’s promise to eradicate car ownership but not cars per se may be a reinforcement of car dependence. Smart mobility cannot relieve cities from car dependence, because the most lucrative business opportunities in mobility reside in automobility.
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Smart Mobility Ecosystems and Services, car dependence, car ownership, discourse, problematization, smart mobility
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8 pages
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Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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