TITLE: Travel Behaviour with Growing Space Mobility
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Background: IATBR NEWS has proudly celebrated the first issue published in August 2022. Keeping the original mission of this newsletter, it will bring discussions around another futuristic vision and mindboggling idea to the attention of travel modellers around the world. The second issue is aimed to be published in early 2023 with a focus on another futuristic domain, space mobility. In addition to a series of articles on space mobility, the following issues of IATBR NEWS will feature a series of interviews with academic figures who have significantly contributed to the field of travel behaviour. Every issue will include two exclusive interviews to provide an outlook on the life of scholars that younger generations admire and like to learn from. The second issue will also provide an extensive report on the 16th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research in Santiago, Chile.
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Discussion: In this issue, we invite researchers, scientists, and practitioners to describe, criticise, support, or challenge ideas around the travel behaviour of an era when the origin and/or the destination of a trip are not necessarily positioned on the planet earth. Borrowing concepts from the first issue, metaverses have already started creating a visual world for living and playing in space (see, for example, Star Atlas[1]). The virtual world aside, we can easily imagine factories moving to space as rare minerals might be available above the ground, tourism experiencing a shift toward watching the earth from above as an affordable pleasure for ordinary people, and international passenger terminals being located in the atmosphere. As we watch the race among billionaires’ companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, the question remains for transport modellers as to whether we should let our imaginations fly beyond our classical demand models in which land-use modelling is limited to options attached to the earthly infrastructure? Even if we ignore the possibility of people’s homes not physically having roots in the earth, can we reimagine infrastructures floating in different layers of the atmosphere and even beyond the 100km line above the ground called the edge of space? With many non-government-sponsored commercial suborbital flight (CSF) providers worldwide, businesses and people's land-use and travel behaviour might change in the lifetime of the readers of this issue of IATBR NEWS.
This issue promotes evidence-based discussions and arguments provoking critical, creative, and lateral thinking about the requirements and consequences of a world when CSF providers are considered for vacations, the supply chain management behaviour of companies considering that options in the sky and travelling may have a stop or destination somewhere with full panoramic views. In that future, the air modes of transport may have multiple subcategories like rocket-powered vehicles, high-altitude balloons, parabolic flights, and others already available. This issue invites authors to submit their short articles (maximum 600 words[2]) where one picture/diagram must be included as a schematic abstract. The articles are expected to have only one author (the article will be published with a photo of the author, see issue one as an example). The authors are invited to reveal a novel view about the travel behaviour paradigm shift assuming that space mobility will affect the day-to-day lives of people around the world. All aspects related to mobility, including air, maritime, non-motorized, urban, regional, rural, passenger and freight, are welcome to be discussed as long as a link to space mobility can be shed light upon. |
Key Dates: The deadline for submission of the articles is the 1st of October 2022. The articles are expected to be published in the first newsletter of IATBR in January 2023.[3]
Contact: Submissions and queries should be emailed to Taha Rashidi ([email protected]) [1] https://play.staratlas.com/ [2] Cited papers are included as footnotes not included in the word count [3] P.S. The total number of words in the article above is 646 words. |