The article discusses a generational perspective on changes in lifestyle and consumption patterns that complement more-traditional approaches of heterogeneity and path dependency of human behavior. An application is given, in developing a model of cohort and gender-specific diffusion of technological artifacts, applied to the case of car ownership in Germany. The article concludes with a number...

Moped-style scooter sharing services (MSS) offer short-period renting for daily urban mobility and are gaining popularity in cities worldwide. MSS provide substantial promise reducing car-dependency helping sustainability goals, but also significant risks terms of spatial access equity social justice. In recent years, European have been testing different regulation strategies not always succeed...

This paper investigates the combined problem of high car dependence and housing affordability, in view of likely continued volatility in oil prices (and hence higher petrol and diesel prices), and rising house prices. Household budgets are likely to be stretched where there are high levels of car dependency and housing unaffordability – with little flexibility for rising costs in either or both...

Certain developed countries have experienced the ‘peak car’ phenomenon. While this remains to be confirmed longitudinally, it looks certain that future mobility in Europe and elsewhere will be shaped by a particular technological development: driverless or autonomous transport. The ‘autonomous car’ ignites the imagination, yet the research and debate on this topic largely focus on the ‘autonomo...

Today’s urban design of new quarters in the fringes German metropolises shows a renaissance garage building as cluster for car parking. In contrast to past, parking garages are planned multifunctional “mobility hubs.” Planners enrich them with mobility and sharing options incorporate sports or social infrastructure facilities on roof ground floor, thus contributing vibrant neighborhoods. intern...

The study investigated the constraints to farmers’ intention to pay for private irrigation in Nandom District, Ghana. Using a key informant interviews and semi-structured questionnaires, the study collected data from 236 farmers. Data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. Kendall coefficient of concordance was used to determine the level of agreement among farmers in ranking...

We investigate the integration of two approaches to information security: information flow analysis, in which the dependence between secret inputs and public outputs is tracked through a program, and differential privacy, in which a weak dependence between input and output is permitted but provided only through a relatively small set of known differentially private primitives. We find that info...