Context- and Community- sensitive transport solutions in Charlotteville Tobago: Impacts on the spatial governance

应对气候变化需要可持续的综合运输解决方案。然而，在交通发展方面，空间治理仍然经常以个人汽车使用为导向。在这个项目中，空间治理描述了交通发展参与者对空间的欣赏、组织、使用和功能的相互作用。关于可持续交通和出行的研究一方面指出了改变个人和个人出行行为向步行、骑自行车和共享交通的重要性。另一方面，学者们认为，交通发展对个人需求和空间因素的关注，如空间上以汽车为导向的城镇，促进了个人主义社会的进程，增加了居民流动性，减少了社会参与和社区相互支持。这个项目回应了关于社区在可持续交通发展的空间治理中的作用的不足。社区和空间治理都是模糊的概念，这就需要在语境中对它们进行澄清。因此，我将在这个项目中应用一个基于网络的社会地理通信平台来绘制社区及其交通需求，澄清空间感知，并与多巴哥的夏洛特维尔社区一起制定可持续的交通解决方案。空间上的重点是加勒比地区的农村社区，因为像特立尼达和多巴哥这样的小岛屿国家在气候变化和扩大以汽车为导向的岛屿的影响下处于明显不利地位。本研究解决了以下主要问题：多巴哥夏洛特维尔社区和环境敏感的交通解决方案开发在多大程度上影响了可持续综合交通发展的空间治理？实证基础研究将揭示社区和空间治理在加勒比地区可持续交通解决方案发展中的作用的新见解。

Combating climate change needs sustainable and integrated transport solutions. However, with regards to transport development, spatial governance still is often oriented towards individual car use. In this project, spatial governance describes the interplay of transport developing actors steering the appreciation, the organisation, the use and functions of space. Research on sustainable transport and mobility has pointed on the one hand to the importance to change the personal and individual mobility behaviour towards walking, bicycling and shared transportation. On the other hand scholars argue that the focus in transport development on individual needs and spatial factors, e.g. spatially car- oriented towns have facilitated the process of an individualistic society, an increasing residential mobility, less social participation and mutual support in the community. This project responds to the shortcoming knowledge about the role of the community in the spatial governance for sustainable transport development. Both community and spatial governance are fuzzy concepts, which raises the need to clarify them in the context. Therefore, I will apply in this project a web-based social-geocommunication platform to map the community, its transport needs, to clarify spatial perceptions and to develop sustainable transport solutions with the community of Charlotteville in Tobago. The focus spatially is on this rural community in the Caribbean Region because Small Island States like Trinidad and Tobago are significantly disadvantaged from the effects of climate change and expanding a car-oriented island. The research addresses the following main question: To what extent does community and context-sensitive transport solution development influence the spatial governance in sustainable integrated transport development in Charlotteville, Tobago? The empirical basic research will reveal new insights into the role of the community and spatial governance in the development of sustainable transport solutions in the Caribbean.