Mobility biographies: Studying transport and travel behaviour through life histories

This chapter discusses the differing time horizons available for alerting populations most particularly the most vulnerable segments of communities to the impending disasters and to get smarter about developing flexible modes of social-technical organization which enable the reconnection and re-establishment of impacted communities after a disaster. Discussions of the social sustainability of urban transport and of urban infrastructure have begun to engage with issues of social equity and social exclusion under routine conditions of urban functioning and to an extent have appreciated that social inequalities are heightened in situations of natural disaster crises. Within the context of the social sustainability of urban transport, it is clear that mega cities and dense settled geographical areas have to extend a greater consideration to the pattern of geographical risk factors associated with their locations. To discuss sustainable mobility adequately, must discuss sustainability of settlement patterns and the sustainability of infrastructure patterns in the context of the now known grand scale of natural disasters.