1st Edition

Shifting Mobility Part 1: Transforming Planning and Design for New Human Mobility Code

By Dewan Masud Karim Copyright 2024
    450 Pages 24 Color & 90 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    450 Pages 24 Color & 90 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    In the face of resource depletion, environmental changes, lifestyle changes, demographic and digital adaptation, old ideologies of city building and expensive and complex automobility solutions are in freefall. These changes are creating severe friction between the old and new paradigms. This book provides new perspectives through the process of ideological disassociation and concepts of human mobility code. The basic premise of the book, human mobility is an essential component of our creativity that comes from our unconscious desire to become a part of a community. Several new concepts in the book starts with the hallmark of new discovery of human mobility code and its implications of urban mobility boundary systems to stay within safe planetary zone. A new discovery of human mobility code from comprehensive research finding prove that each individual develops a unique mobility footprint and become our mobility identity. Beyond individual hallmarks, human develops collective mobility codes through interaction with the third space on which entire mobility systems lie and are created by the fundamentals of city planning and the design process. Readers are introduced to an innovative mobility planning process and reinvention of multimodal mobility approaches based on new mobility code while formulating new concepts, practical solutions and implementation techniques, tools, policies, and processes to reinforce low-carbon mobility options while addressing social equity, environmental, and health benefits. Finally, the book arms us with knowledge to prevent the disaster of full technological enlightenment against our natural human mobility code.

    PART 1. ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MOBILITY. The Interconnected World of Mobility. The Invisible Footprint of Human Mobility code. Sensing Mobility DNA. Our Hidden Mobility Code. Energy Transformation: Feeding the new mobility ecosystem. Physical Mobility(-as-a-Place) for Everyday: Reinventing Public Realm. Shifting Flexible Policies for a New Mobility Ecosystem.

    Biography

    Dewan Masud Karim has worked as an engineer in Canada and Japan for the past 25 years. He is involved in urban innovation, smart mobility and big data projects in mobility planning and design. A graduate of University of Tokyo and Ryerson University, Dewan holds engineering designations in four provinces in Canada. A keynote speaker for major events, he regularly provides conference courses, workplace workshops, and webinars on safety and transportation planning. His ideas have won awards, including MIT Media Lab’s ‘Best Planning System’ and ITE’s 2015 ‘Project of Year’. He has also written a chapter for the renowned book “Disrupting Mobility”.