Many examples from the past show that new technologies designed to solve particular problems can also create side effects generating new problems. Some unforeseen or unwanted results may influence space use and spatial structures. Car-sharing is an invention to compete with car ownership. It drastically rise efficiency of car use, reducing the number of vehicles per users. Diffusion of car-sharing is going to accelerate in the near future. The spatial consequences of the car-ownership-oriented-century are already known. But things can complicate if everybody could join traffic with shared automobiles. It is therefore appropriate to anticipate potential side effects of this innovation’s diffusion to avoid negative consequences, and if necessary – to prepare to encounter them. This led to undertake research on the relationship between modern mobility innovations and metropolitan spatial structures. The earliest implementations of new transport technologies appear in metropolises which also have the highest level of general mobility. The article presents the assumptions and principles of scenario-based research. The example shows how diffusion of innovation determine possible scenarios of the future impacts of car-sharing on spatial structures.
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- DOI
- Digital Object Identifier link open in new tab 10.12955/cbup.v4.858
- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2016
