"What the mobile phone did for communication, electric mobility will do for individual mobility," Norbert Reithofer, the chief executive of BMW, said during an introduction event for the i3 in New York in July.
While banknote sightings have been useful in establishing the predictability of movement patterns on broader scales, mobile phone trajectories operating in space time provide detailed insights on individual mobility patterns (González et al. 2008).
A: There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility.
Individual mobility should always be considered in relationship to the social and cultural milieus within which that person functions.
Equality of conditions, in which talent, education and hard work are rewarded by individual mobility, ceased to be an exclusively American illusion after 1989.
Although urban-industrial life offers unprecedented opportunites for individual mobility and personal freedom, it can exact high social and psychological tolls.
Thus, some sociologists have suggested that class distinctions might be reduced not by individual mobility but by the achievement of social and economic equality for all.
While preserving air quality is obviously a paramount concern there will inevitably be a negative impact on business efficiency and individual mobility".
The latest ICT developments provide new opportunities to organise and offer collective and individual mobility services.
Bourdieu also notes that individual mobility in the social space is not random.
New approaches provide an integration of technologies for individual mobility into entire mobility systems.
