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Anti-coronas and germophobic neurotics: rationalising choices to use or not use public transport during the pandemic 抗冠状病毒和细菌恐惧症：在大流行期间合理选择使用或不使用公共交通工具

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2429557

Laura Bang Lindegaard

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‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence “以名义，她活下去”：车辆暴力幸存者叙述中的责任与再人性化

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2429543

Eva C. Kwakman , Marco te Brömmelstroet , Arnold A. P. van Emmerik

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From tourists to (im)migrants: intimacy mobility chains between Europe and Brazil 从游客到（非）移民：欧洲和巴西之间的亲密流动链

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2420677

Octávio Sacramento

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Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone 重新配置人力车的机动性：达卡外交区的正规化和例外

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2412116

Annemiek Prins

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Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities 运动机动性：运动机动性研究的框架和议程

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2409643

Simon Cook , Peter Adey , Jonas Larsen

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Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process 结构上处于不利地位的人的生活经验：促进更公正的参与性交通规划进程

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2426554

Anke Klaever , Vanessa Rösner , Sophia Becker , Viktoria Scheidler

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‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States) 传送港城市的“动态隔离”：来自纽瓦克（美国新泽西州）的反思

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2441188

Marco Alioni

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Life in transit: the work of hyper-mobile gamete couriers in vital mobility infrastructures 运输中的生活：在重要的移动基础设施中，超移动的游戏信使的工作

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2429562

Andrea Whittaker , Cal Volks

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Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service 自动化与审美劳动：机场自助服务工作的微观流动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2325372

Weiqiang Lin

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Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US 英国和美国公众对自动驾驶汽车的预期

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2325386

Chris Tennant , Jack Stilgoe , Sandra Vucevic , Sally Stares

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