Call for contributions: proposed Journal of Transport Geography Special Issue “Geographies of bike-sharing and emerging forms of shared micro-mobility”

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Dear Colleagues,

Call for contributions: proposed Journal of Transport Geography Special Issue “Geographies of bike-sharing and emerging forms of shared micro-mobility”

While bike-share schemes and emerging micro-mobility options may make claims to be socially inclusive by supporting modal shift and providing alternatives for those marginalised by private car based mobility, the reality is often different. Any aspiration for inclusive bike-sharing and shared micro-mobilities is fundamentally related to the use of space and, this being the case, these shared mobility services need to be considered in terms of how they manifest or undermine established power relations.

You are invited to submit an abstract for a proposal of a Special Issue of the Journal of Transport Geography. The proposal is coordinated by the co-chairs of Sessions 56, 324, 353 of the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, but we warmly welcome submissions from further contributors.

More information about the Special Issue proposal process and provisional deadlines can be found here.

You can find the Call for Abstracts below.

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 11th January 17:00 anywhere in the world.

  • Expected submission of the Special Issue proposal and acceptance of abstracts: before the end of January 2019.

We will confirm our acceptance of your abstract and, once the proposal is accepted we will confirm dates for submission of full papers, but we expect that this will be July 2019, with the full special issue published April-June 2020. However, papers that are accepted before this date will be available ‘online first’ as soon as possible.

We would be delighted if you would confirm interest, along with a commitment to submitting an abstract by the closing date. Please, also, feel free to distribute the call to targeted researchers, working with critical approaches to bike-sharing and/or micro-mobility. We are really excited about this proposal and we encourage you to join us in this adventure.

For any questions about the proposal, to confirm interest or to submit an abstract, please email:

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