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Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in the passenger transport sector.
Profound technological advances are changing the mobility expectations of city populations around the world. Transportation design is an under represented research area of urban transportation planning. Urban Mobility Design addresses this gap, providing research-based analysis on current and future needs of urban transportation passengers. The book examines mobility from a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective, involving a variety of innovative design and transportation planning approaches.
List of contents
1. Introduction - Urban Mobility Design2. Energy, Package, Culture and Form3. A Driverless World4. Accessibility and Design5. Passenger User Experience6. Manufacturing Mobility7. Transforming Future Mobility
About the author
Selby Coxon, Director of the Mobility Design Lab at Monash University, has thirty years’ experience in Transportation Industrial Design as an academic and practitioner. He’s worked with a wide range of organizations, including the French national railway and Metro Trains Australia.Robbie Napper, Senior Lecturer at Monash University, researches the design and manufacture of public transportation vehicles, focusing on mass customization, and user-centered experience. He’s worked with British Aerospace and Suncorp Electronics.Mark Richardson, Lecturer at Monash University, leads research in transitioning to transportation design and production to become more sustainable, resilient, and accessible. He is a former Senior Designer for the Ford Motor Company.
