1st Edition
Mobilities, Design and Passenger Experiences
Introduction: Mobilities, design and passenger experiences
Peter Merriman and Samuel Mutter
1. ‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations
Ole B. Jensen
2. Are airports like cities? Affordances and people’s micro embodied interactions during the arrival experience
Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno
3. A passenger service revolution? Transport design and passenger experience on Tokyo’s urban railway network, c. 1945–2010
Christoph Schimkowsky
4. ‘Squeezing in’: body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China
Siying Wu
5. Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system
Daniel Muñoz
6. Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters
Samuel Mutter
7. Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node
Vanessa Stjernborg
Afterword: ‘Designing’ mobilities
Peter Merriman and Samuel Mutter
Biography
Samuel Mutter is Postdoctoral Researcher on the Data Stories project at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of several articles on the politics of mobilities, public transport, and urban infrastructure, including in the journals Mobilities, Progress in Human Geography, and City.
Peter Merriman is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (co-edited 2014), Mobility and the Humanities (co-edited 2018), Space (2022), and The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Geographies (co-edited 2026).
