The autonomobility system - Mobility justice and freedom under sustainability

In this chapter, the authors analyze automobility, the hegemonic mobility system, and suggest an alternative imaginary they call 'autonomobility'. They offer historical, scenario-based, fictional and existing glimpses of autonomobility to suggest it is a viable model of pegging the pursuit of individual flourishing within environmental limits and distributional equity, using socialized and collectivized forms of co-movement as a vision to animate an egalitarian society. The authors identify (pre)existing seeds of the autonomobility system in history, fiction and mobility practices that prefigure possible ways ahead, whilst acknowledging obstacles and counter-forces to this vision. Thus, the modern promise of mobility and freedom, on which distributive models of mobility justice also rest, primarily means the mobility of economically productive labor forces. Both sustainability and social justice, can be said to rest on inter- and intra-generational justice issues: a relationality in time and space.