Automobility futures and COVID-19: a socio-technical systems perspective.

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Much of the academic research community has turned its attention and resources to COVID-19, including social-scientists searching for insights into the impact, management, and implications of the pandemic. The socio-technical transitions theoretical framework, traditionally used to understand historic social change from a systemic perspective, has the potential to provide some of those insights across social and institutional structures, and across spatial and temporal scales.

This presentation explores potential futures for automobility while in parallel exploring the strengths and weaknesses of socio-technical transitions theory as a means of understanding future possibilities in the context of discontinuous events.