Mobility

In a design context, mobility (Latin: mobilitas) refers to developing the objects and systems that make movement and transportation possible. The word “mobility” is often used in colloquial speech to imply the availability of the appropriate transport facilities. Yet this disregards the systemic aspect of mobility: that of individual, physical, or mental movability or of the connections between various individual and public systems of transport. In other words, mobility in the design context is not only about designing physical means of transport, such as cars, trains, airplanes, and ships (Automobile Design, Transportation Design). It also implies designing the networks these vessels traverse, as well as corporate services in visible or non-visible segments of transportation, traffic, and (→) logistics. Design has contributed to democratizing transportation and travel by making it available to a greater number of people, while the digitalizing of transportation network systems allows...