Sheller, Mimi. In fact, urban highway building in other cities has had brutal impacts, and social movements in such cities as Toronto and New Orleans successfully stopped highway building projects (Berman 1989; Lewis 1997). Nationwide personal transportation survey. Theory of the leisure class. The prevalence of this mode of travel helps us to Driven to Drive 185 explain the fact that, by 2002, the US automobile fleet alone was consuming over 8.3 million barrels per day of oil and generating more carbon emissions than the entire Japanese economy (Renner 2005). Ironically, the increasing ‘automobilization’ of contemporary life has also transformed this enchanted machine into a unique window onto a number of nagging problems lurking under the shiny surfaces of capitalist society – including social atomization, time poverty, stress, tragic injuries and fatalities, deteriorating public health, ecological destruction, social exclusion and the evisceration of public space. http:// www.vtpi. This is likely to result from changes occurring within the ‘mix’ of relations that have formed around the current car transport system. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24: 737–57. A field guide to sprawl. This page has been left blank intentionally Chapter 13 Post-Car Mobilities Kingsley Dennis and John Urry There is no one ideal mode or speed: human purpose should govern the choice of the means of transportation. On the consumption side, the US has reached saturation level. Toll road concessions: The Chilean experience. Nearly 500 racers, fans, and track officials attended. http://web.amnesty.org (accessed 01 February 2007). Biofuels in the European Union: A vision for 2030 and beyond. NHRA Midwest Nationals 3 Day Pass. 81–104. The PHEV is the basis for a viable Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G), Distributed Generation (DG) vision, whereby the car can be plugged back into the grid when not in use not only to recharge but also to return some of its unused energy during peak demand, for which the owner can be reimbursed. Indeed, the increasing amount of time people are spending in their traffic has itself fed into the vogue for gas-guzzling, behemoth utility vehicles that can serve as placid, climate-controlled, and technologically decked-out ‘carcoons’ (Lyons and Urry 2005). Once people own vehicles they are motivated to use them in order to maximize the value of their fixed expenses. The Science of Happiness When evaluating economic progress people often use indicators of material wealth and productivity such as changes in income, property ownership, and Gross Domestic Product, assuming that increased wealth increases happiness (Redefining Progress 2006). 1998. MADISON - The Midwest Nationals will deliver the world’s biggest names in professional drag racing to the St. Louis-Metro East region, including John Force, Ron Capps, five-time WWTR winner Antron Brown, three-time NHRA Funny Car champion Robert Hight, four-time NHRA Pro Stock titlist Erica Enders, and Jeg Coughlin. 2001. Cities 16: 207–16. ——. London: UCL Press. Turcotte, Martin. Chapter 10 Driven to Drive: Cars and the Problem of ‘Compulsory Consumption’ Dennis Soron As an iconic commodity of the consumer age, the private automobile has become intimately associated with prevailing ideals of personal mobility and individual freedom. Contemporary US experiences in trying to stem and to retro-fit motorized urban sprawl in piecemeal fashion provide examples (see Henderson’s chapter on Atlanta). Post-Car Mobilities 239 being encapsulated in a privatized, cocooned, moving capsule (Whitelegg 1997; Miller 2001). This appears to be a new research subject. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Many teenagers take part-time jobs in order to afford a vehicle that they use primarily to commute to work, a pattern that is only rational if the car ownership is an end in itself. The symbolic and emotive dimensions of automobility are undeniably culturally significant, mediating and shaping our relationship with cars, nature, public space, and the contested, divided, and unequal social world of which we are part. Steve Torrence, 6.278, 99.39; 15. For example, the Chinese government’s restriction of bicycle use in favour of the car “is generating an intense debate between those attempting to facilitate traffic and those defending bicycles as effective and environmentally benign transport, especially for lower-income people” (Committee on the Future of Personal Transport Vehicles in China 2003, 143). Predicting traffic expansion and then providing for it through new road building became especially marked during the middle years of the last century (Cerny 1990, 190–4). Mitchell, Joni 1970. 1997. Vasconcellos, Eduardo A. 2000. The post-suburban metropolis. DISP [Zurich] 151: 4–14. Within MDCs, production is growing strongly only in Eastern Europe. 64–65. Indeed, the private toll roads complement this scheme that is also contingent on expanding the city endlessly. While the variability of car culture needs to be acknowledged, understanding the roots of automobile- dependency requires us to move beyond the plane of individual motivations and desires, and look more closely at the decisions made Driven to Drive 193 by political and economic elites that have shaped the sphere of consumption. (11) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 134, 33. After mid-century, production mushroomed in Western Europe and Japan, and for much of the latter half of the century, the Big Three – Germany, Japan and the US – dominated. 2000. Once established, the petrol system got ‘locked in’ to a path-dependent market and the rest is history. http://www.itdp. The transport infrastructures of US hyperautomobility are both social (e.g., policing) and material (e.g., roads). An environmental history of the twentieth-century world: Something new under the sun. Part 4 Beyond the Car This page has been left blank intentionally Chapter 11 Mobility as a Positional Good: Implications for Transport Policy and Planning Todd Litman Contentment is natural wealth, luxury, artificial poverty (Socrates 469–399 BC). Motor Vehicle Ownership Positional value motivates some people to increase their vehicle ownership beyond what they would otherwise choose (Steg 2005). ——. Nano-engineered materials are also likely to become part of a future redesigned vehicle. OECD. London, UK: Department for Transport. 2005. Globalisation and urban change. Gobierno de Chile. asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=46674 (accessed 22 February 2007). The dramatic increase in cars and the construction of roads in recent years has facilitated the expansion of Santiago: an accelerated and unequal project of housing construction that has extended the city in all directions; a process of suburbanization that makes of mobility a key element for the everyday life of business and people. Found insideThis is the experience you’ll get in Don "The Snake" Prudhomme: My Life Beyond the 1320. Quite often, commentators attribute this psycho-cultural attachment to automobiles and other consumer items largely to the influence of advertising. Finally, of course, the unprecedented mobility that motorized transportation offers serves as a kind of circulatory system for contemporary capitalism, distributing fresh waves of goods to store shelves across vast geographical spaces, and providing the major means by which people shuttle between work, home, and various nodes of consumption – restaurants, malls, gas stations, movie theatres, big-box outlets, and so on. Blumenberg, Evelyn and Waller, Margy. Vehicle to grid power. Nicolis, Gregoire. The NHRA North Central Division 3 Fall Classic returns to Lucas Oil Raceway in a three-day event starting on October 15. Read last week’s Sportsman Racing Top 10 List here. Because people use such travel to compete for prestige, demand for this type of travel is virtually unlimited. 2006. Pit area size doubled for NHRA WCS meet, which draws 425 cars and 6,500 fans. View all our Photos. Cleaner engines and fuels reduce per car emissions but because of more car travel overall levels of pollution remain unacceptably high. Intensified Motorization in MDCs Originally developed in the US and Western Europe, motorized transport has peaked in the former. 2005. El cascabel al gato: La batalla por la reforma previsional. Be sure to watch competition at the NHRA Fall Classic in Indianapolis, part of the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and the NHRA North Central Division. NAR and NAHB. In this group, there is national variability with regard to levels of urban motorized transport, as between the US and Japan. However, there is no reason for policies to favour mobilityintensive industries and goods over others, or to under price such goods relative to their full costs. Our attachment to consumer goods such as cars is often crosscut with strong feelings of frustration toward the everyday world in which they are enmeshed, and with inarticulate longings for a life in which they do not loom so large. That event will be held from September 16 to 19, and more information can be found here. Leah Pruett, 6.830, 97.75. Ignorance, he asserts (1998, 65), is no longer a legitimate excuse for our “wicked” behaviour; indeed, “[w]e have all the information we need to persuade us by means of rational argument that using cars the way we do is catastrophic. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. The market can respond to effective demand for a particular brand, colour, or make of car, but it cannot adequately respond to needs that cannot be easily expressed in commodity form: clean air and water; less cluttered and stressful personal schedules; safe, sociable and aesthetically pleasing neighbourhoods; access to public services; connection to nature; unstructured time to spend with friends and family; meaningful opportunities for participating in the decisions shaping the world in which we live. Embodying automobiles with status increases vehicle ownership, vehicle costs, and vehicle travel as owners drive more to display their vehicles and justify their investments. Within this ‘machinic complex’ car travel has ushered into modernity new experiences of stress, tension, and frustration, resulting in sporadic scenes of criminally violent behaviour classified as road rage (Lupton 2002). This effect is often subtle, reflected in extra enthusiasm for automobile improvements and weaker support for efforts to improve alternative modes. Wachtel, Paul L. 1983. 2007. Urban transport and poverty in developing countries. EURE Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales 28(85): 187–207. House of Commons Transport Committee. Rick Hendrick, yes THAT Rick Hendrick, is sponsoring NHRA Pro Stock champ Greg Anderson this season. He then went on to play 4 seasons for the Chicago Bears and 2 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Major Pain: Confessions of a Smash-Mouth Safety is a memoir about obstacles Wright has faced throughout his career. It is possible that smart-car technologies may accelerate the merging of cars into ‘virtual’ territories that will allow them to be intercepted from external sources whereby material updates will be provided wirelessly from manufactures such as in-car software upgrades via car-to-dealer communications. (8) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 134, 51. In such environments, walking and cycling is often wildly impractical, time-consuming and unsafe, if not impossible, and public transit is generally inadequate and expensive to maintain. Doug Kalitta, 3.869, 305.84; 9. This social ecological deficit of built environments dominated by motorization has also been noted in the UK: Poor people, and disadvantaged communities, often get penalized twice. http://www.pwc.com/extweb/ pwcpublications.nsf/docid/CBADDEEABACD24BC8525736E007CFD9B (accessed 8 July 2008). The dizzying growth in rates of automobile ownership and usage among the ‘global consumer class’ (Durning 1992) over the past several decades is an important index of the ways in which capitalist social and economic development has transformed human needs and the means available to satisfy them. That event will be held from September 16 to 19, and more information can be found here. The flip side of this institutionalized bias towards auto-centred transport is the lack of collective resources and policies now devoted to making alternative modes of transportation more convenient, safe, affordable, and accommodated to the complexity of individual needs and schedules. Positional value significantly affects transportation decisions. The technical requirements of driving, especially on congested roads, exclude children, many people with disabilities, and frail elderly. 2001. http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/ ishappening/sources/sources_co2_facts3.html (accessed 26 June 2007). Increased motor vehicle ownership and mobility may provide indirect benefits by supporting particular industries and innovations. 2002. November 4-7. Working Paper Series. A trip too far: Ecotourism, politics and exploitation. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research 0(0): 41–56. 2006. New York: The Free Press. References Alvord, Katie. 2011 – Auto-Plus takes over sponsorship of the Nationals. Similarly, Heinberg notes that “we need a solution now, not decades from now” (2004, 129). Still, he’s not satisfied. The book provides a kind of "what's coming next manual" for European peacemakers as they also confront a rising tide of militarism. The book examines the disturbing, nurturing role of the Catholic Church in recruiting youth. The cities of the world that exist now and which were built before significant numbers of their inhabitants owned cars, have, with few exceptions, neither the undeveloped land, nor the fuel, nor the money necessary to follow the American example. 2001. Complexification. Can biofuels pose a serious challenge to crude oil? The Economist. It splits homes and business districts, undermining local retail outlets to which one might have walked or cycled, eroding towncenters, non-car pathways, and public spaces. Williams, Raymond. (6) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 134, 37. This change may itself be reflected within newly emerging transport policies. Apply luxury taxes, road pricing, and emission fees to internalize external costs and capture some of the value that would otherwise be lost through competition for status. Eschborn: Division 44, Environmental Management, Water, Energy, Transport. One example is the EU project, the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T): By 2020, TEN-T will include 89,500 km of roads and 94,000 km of railways, including around 20,000 km of high-speed rail lines suitable for speeds of at least 200 km/h. In spite of the manifest flaws of current transportation patterns, private cars and trucks continue to move more people across greater distances than ever before. The revenge of gaia. TBD - World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, IL, US. Dolan, Paul, Peasgood, Tessa and White, Mathew. In the 1990s, around 20 companies took over many existing roads, and using capital that, at least in part, had been extracted from Chilean workers by AFPs, Figure 9.1 Pension Funds and Highways, 2005 – Billboard on Highway 68 widened and upgraded them at little risk but for high profits. This chapter analyzes these differences and their social ecological ramifications. PPV/Events Sep 24 Races can be delayed or canceled due to weather. Abbott maintains “the possibility for a pattern of actions to occur to put the key in the lock and make a major turning point occur” (2001, 257). As Wachtel (1983, 32) has written of the automobile, “few products have had as powerful a role in shaping the way we live, for both good and ill, and few so strongly define and limit what options appear available to us.” The conundrum that relatively affluent citizens in car-dependent societies now face is that they cannot maintain their sense of entitlement to the consumerist lifestyle the car enables without also locking themselves into the troubles it leaves in its wake. The ‘structure of auto space’ (Freund and Martin 1993) forces people to orchestrate in complex and heterogeneous ways their mobilities and socialities across very significant distances. The Chilean Way to Modernity 179 19 October. Washington: Island Press. For example, a lower-income person might be best off overall relying on a combination of walking, cycling, public transit, and rented cars, but chooses instead to own an automobile because of the status it conveys. Mode Choice Alternative modes (such as walking, cycling, ridesharing, and public transit) are stigmatized relative to driving. Because its costs of participation rule out meaningful use by the poorest persons, and its dominance degrades low-cost public transport, the hegemony of the personal car in the US feeds inequality and injustice. Santiago: Zig Zag. We might thus see the car system as a Janus-faced creature, extending individuals into realms of freedom and flexibility, but also constraining them to live spatiallystretched and time-compressed lives. Oct. 15-17. Prigogine describes these system effects as “a world of irregular, chaotic motions” (1997, 155). Theory, Culture and Society 21(4/5): 25–39. But the emergence of the car system transformed that concept of speed into one of convenience. The NHRA North Central Division 3 E.T. ——. 2005. It is not the ‘car’ as such that is key, but the system of these fluid interconnections since: “a car is not a car because of its physicality but because systems of provision and categories of things are ‘materialized’ in a stable form” that then we might say possesses very distinct affordances (Slater 2001, 6). Its basic parameters are low density and high motorization. People also use the car as a “medium for physical separation and physical expression of racialized, anti-urban ideologies” in such cities as Atlanta, Georgia (Henderson, this volume) to secede from what they perceive to be urban problems. 2017 Virginia Division 1 LODRS Points Meet. Car use: Lust and must. These transformations may also be seen as various ‘turning points’, each one contributing to the system as it nears a potential ‘tipping point’. Members of families are split up since they live in distant places involving complex travel to meet up even intermittently. Found inside – Page 38Oct. 6-8: Sunoco Sportsman Fall Classic — NHRA National Open. ... Tournament Oct. 6"8: Rolex Division II Women's Tournament Theater-goers can take in three ... Although it is difficult to determine exactly how much the stigmatization of alternative modes affects travel behaviour, the total impact is probably moderate to large, particularly in urban areas over the long run, increasing automobile travel 10–20 percent more than would otherwise occur. New Materials It is almost unavoidable that an efficient car will no longer be made of steel. live video: nhra fall classic open, indianapolis Sat, 2019-10-12 10:16 Thanks to our coverage partners at DragRacer.TV (formerly D3TV) and Warren Evans, we present to you the live video feed from the NHRA Fall Classic National Open from Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Travel demand has a long tail, meaning that if the price (perceived user costs) declines, consumers will increase their mobility, as illustrated in Figure 11.6, in part due to competition for status. This goal may signal a move towards systemic thinking in terms of industrial manufacture and materials. 25th Fall Classic set to closeout North Central Division's 2016 season, Oct. 7-9. The New York Times 2 May: 8. Yellow taxi. Policies for a sustainable consumption. It cannot be read off from linear changes in existing firms, industries, practices and economies. Délano, Manuel. 1998. Ph: (317) 969-8890. wtharpe@nhra.com. Of course, factors such as quality of service and land use patterns also affect travel behaviour, but these result, in part, Figure 11.4 Mode Split in Selected European Cities. Info: See Web site in this listing for details. Vehicle production continues to expand. In Car cultures, Miller, Daniel, ed., pp. The end of certainty. Prigogine, Ilya. By the end of the decade the two most likely major ethanol producers will be Brazil and the US. Bell, Michael G.H. The NHRA North Central Division 3 Fall Classic returns to Lucas Oil Raceway in a three-day event starting on October 15. According to some estimates, the direct costs of automobile transport not covered by drivers themselves come in at 5 percent or more of the Gross Domestic Product of advanced industrial countries today (Sawin 2004). 2007. org/events.html (accessed 14 July 2007). Natural capitalism: Creating the next industrial revolution. It is difficult to determine how much positional value affects total travel. Globalization, capitalism and its alternatives. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6(4): 331–47. Oxford has the UK’s first hire by the hour car club scheme named Avis CARvenience. However, this ‘big picture’ can obscure the negative impacts of specific inequalities within transport, inequalities rooted in the differential distribution of its rewards and risks. Paper presented in STELLA Focus Group 4 Meeting in Brussels, 25–27 March. Economic strategy, markets, and alternatives for the 21st century. Whole Earth Review 78 winter: 44–51. Market surveys indicate that many households choose suburban homes primarily for their social attributes (prestige, security, and good schools) rather than physical attributes such as large lawns (NAR and NAHB 2002; Litman 2007). The state of consumption today. 2007. During the latter half of the twentieth century, LDC cities faced continual pressure and change from industrialization and new technologies such as electricity and motor vehicles, massive in-migration, and the emergence of wealthy residential enclaves. VP Fuels and IRP Fall Bracket Bash Plus VP Fuels Quick 32 Shootout OCTOBER 10 – 12 NHRA VP Fuels Fall Sportsman Classic Furthermore, a move to homogenized forms of biofuel production and cropping patterns in developing countries could be detrimental to existing agricultural practices leading to an irreversible use of agricultural land. 2021 NHRA North Central Division. In France, in 1995, after a protracted battle with local residents, giant multinational Cofiroute was granted a 70-year concession to design, finance, build and operate underground tunnels in Versailles, outside Paris (Poole et al. If interplanetary travel were sufficiently cheap, an earth-bound holiday might be considered dull. Thus, motorization is globalizing rapidly but unevenly. Jain and Guiver argue that “the car creates different lifestyle practices around time and space, excluding many temporary or non-permanent users from participating in a variety of activities, denying ‘citizenship’” (2001, 572). For example, a new southern access to Santiago boasts more than 30 kilometres of highways through densely populated poor municipalities, at times at a short distance from the front doors of the dwellings (Foro Ciudadano 2006), shamelessly intruding on people’s lives – a wound of noise and smog, and a reminder of the power of capital and the powerlessness of those who have no access to the toll roads, the ‘others not-in cars’. 2002), is one example where materials are at the forefront of design and fuel efficiency. The UN has also warned that up to 60 million indigenous people may soon become biofuel refugees, with tens of thousands of rural families already displaced from their land by soya/biofuel companies. All told, the critique of automobility is most promising when it moves beyond simply reorienting our personal relationship to a particular object, and begins to sharpen our resistance to the broader socio-econmoic system that conditions and presupposes the car’s use. Limits of and Resistance to Motorization As Adams (1981, 47) pointed out over two decades ago, a motorized world built in the image of Southern California is not realistic on a global scale: The Global Intensification of Motorization 227 The American experience, desirable or undesirable, is not repeatable, because the conditions in which it occurred are not repeatable. Complexity and the Car The system of automobility stems from the path-dependent pattern laid down in the 1890s. 2006. Paid urban highways need to attract as many cars as possible to increase their profits. They interact with natural topographies and built environments to create the signature habitats of an auto social formation, including far-flung exurbs, corporate campuses, malls, gated communities and big-box stores. The Global Intensification of Motorization 231 DT. Washington: Island Press. MacGregor views movement in car safety as relying “critically on the state as an intervening authority between industry and road users.” Whilst we share some of these concerns we would dispute the overreliance upon top-down hierarchical forms of coerced change. Overall, “hydrogen fuel cell cars are unlikely to achieve significant market penetration in this country (US) by 2030” (Romm 2004, 115). The series opens as part of the NHRA Spring Sportsman XXI National Open at Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis and concludes at the NHRA Fall Classic … Osorio, Victor y Cabezas, Iván. Brown, Lester R. 2003. Privatizing City Roads The privatized inter-urban toll highways were presented by the hegemonic neoliberal project as roads to modernity. In some LDCs, government policy encourages the relocation of poorer inhabitants from older central residential areas to the periphery, thereby reducing the population densities in urban cores (Zhou and Ma 2000). It wanted to stop yearly winners being called before the last races of any year. 2005. The main argument against biofuel production in developed industrialized nations is the unavailability of agricultural cropland, and the shift in using food crop resources for fuel crops which has already had a negative effect upon food prices, especially detrimental to developing countries. Theory, Culture and Society 21(4/5): 25–39. UK House of Commons. It may be necessary to develop a whole new delivery infrastructure as hydrogen, being highly corrosive, has the potential to make brittle current gas pipelines, thus requiring a new infrastructure of pipelines to be established using suitable materials (a problem similar to that of ethanol transportation). 2006. By 2005 their shares had declined to 44 and 41 percent respectively. The expansion of land development at multiples of associated population growth is a feature of motorized urban sprawl. 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