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Looking through a windscreen: managing the future of automobility

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posted on 2020-06-04, 08:16 authored by Marcus EnochMarcus Enoch, James Warren
Global car ownership and usage have grown rapidly for several decades now and these trends look set to continue. For car users, the increase mobility afforded by the automobility system is largely welcomed despite the significant externalities produced. The windscreen is one location where controls on automobility are affixed by using artefacts such as paper discs, decals, stickers or digital devices. These artefacts, in turn, have significant meanings and symbolism on how users relate to their vehicles and how others attempt to control car ownership and use. The aim of this paper is to examine how ownership and use are controlled currently, and to speculate on how they might be mapped in the future through a catalogue of windscreen-mounted artefacts. The artefacts have been sourced globally and were arranged according to the ‘type’ of control they were exerting. Artefact classification analysis shows that public policy instruments can be categorised according to informational, regulatory or economic control; the aspect being targeted; and the frequency and longevity of these interventions. Categories include agents and the focus of action through which a policy instrument is applied. Future trajectories are explored with respect to the role of clutter and the windscreen itself as morphing during possible shifts towards a paradigm of smarter mobility emphasising the importance of usership (not ownership), increasing digitalisation, increasing intelligence, less carbon intensity/electrification, and finally automation.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Applied Mobilities

Volume

7

Issue

1

Pages

81 - 98

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Mobilities on 18 July 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23800127.2020.1776510.

Acceptance date

2020-04-30

Publication date

2020-07-18

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

2380-0127

eISSN

2380-0135

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Marcus Enoch. Deposit date: 3 June 2020

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