Organising Mobility as an Infrastructure for Development

In this work we make use of the concept of policy networks to introduce the main consequences underlying the building and establishing of a transport infrastructure for enhancing mobility. Policy networks are a powerful concept to interpret the dualistic dimensions of public services. Transport infrastructures make no exception since they are regulated at a macro-level, but implemented locally. We depart by pointing out the relevance of the policy networks concept to study transportation infrastructures. Interpreting transport infrastructures as policy networks subsequently recalls a few issues that are covered in the following paragraphs. In particular, transportation infrastructures bring about both economic impacts and logistic advantages in terms of peripheralness/accessibility of a given area. Finally, we look at the wider context of transportation infrastructure to derive a notion of organizing mobility as a more inclusive concept of policy network exploring how organizing mobility can represent an infrastructure for development.