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[[Category:Heidelberg]]
[[Category: Societal Dimension]]
[[Category: Economic Dimension]]
[[Category: Environmental Dimension]]
[[Category: Technological Dimension]]
In combination with climate change, global megatrends such as population growth and urbanisation bring about a double-edged challenge for transportation: For individuals, the access to transportation is closely related to social mobility, health and education. Therefore, globally increasing and changing needs for transport call for the provision of accessible transportation to all. At the same time, however, increasing emissions from transportation are incompatible with required developments to address climate change. Researchers suggest that current policies aiming to enhance the energy-efficiency of transportation are insufficient in meeting international sustainability goals such as the Paris Agreement. The Committee on Transport and Tourism therefore faces the challenge to propose an intelligent transport strategy that addresses both the need for more accessible and less polluting passenger transport.
===Close relationship between accessibility to transport, diversity and social mobility===
'''Lack of mobility is inextricably linked to social disadvantage and exclusion.' ''<ref>European Parliament / Legislative Observatory. (2016). ''2016/2327(INI) - 20/07/2016 Non-legislative basic document.'' Retrieved from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/summary.do?id=1468976&t=e&l=en </ref>
Identifying the main links between accessibility to transport, diversity and social mobility allows to understand the sociological aspect of the topic. The fact that mobility is connected to many fundamental aspects of an individual’s life, lays at the basis of these consideration. Generally, low access to transportation threatens to limit a person’s opportunities to '''access health care, education and jobs'''. It is therefore that mobility is such a relevant topic for society and that barriers to the access to transportation are so closely tied to '''social inequality'''.
===Factors that hamper the exploitation of existing opportunities for improvement:===
Some factors can be identified that appear to hamper the exploitation of already existing opportunities, such as new transportation technologies , or mobility concepts. These include:
* '''investment in certain infrastructures''': In 2014, the investment into road infrastructure 52% of investment in transport into road infrastructure.Such a high investment is argued to generate new demand, reinforcement of car-dependency, hindering investment in more sustainable transport.
[[File:Investment in transport infrastructure - EEA 2016.png|thumb|Investment in transport infrastructure - EEA 2016]]
Government Technology. (2014). How Transportation Technologies Will Change Everything. http://www.govtech.com/transportation/How-Transportation-Technologies-Will-Change-Everything-.html
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