Measuring and typifying mobility using motility

Kaufmann, Vincent; Dubois, Yann; Ravalet, Emmanuel

doi:10.1080/23800127.2017.1364540

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“…What is more, these studies have assessed either healthy older adults without mobility limitations [6,30], or older adults suffering from severe neurological or cognitive disorders [29]. Kaufmann's "motility" concept, which can potentially deliver a better insight in mobility (determinants) in old age, has so far only been used in qualitative studies [31][32][33][34], with working-aged adults [35,36] or with non-frail older adults [37,38]. Furthermore, Cuignet et al (2020) [38] and Bernier et al (2019) [36] focused on the individual aptitudes and interests regarding different transportation modes excluding for example the general social and psychological contexts.…”

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Motility in Frail Older Adults: Operationalization of a New Framework and First Insights into Its Relationship with Physical Activity and Life-Space Mobility: An Exploratory Study

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Zijlstra

Giannouli

2020

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In order to design effective interventions to prevent age-related mobility loss, it is important to identify influencing factors. The concept of “motility” by Kaufmann et al. subdivides such factors into three categories: “access”, “skills”, and “appropriation”. The aim of this study was to assemble appropriate quantitative assessment tools for the assessment of these factors in frail older adults and to get first insights into their relative contribution for life-space and physical activity-related mobility. This is an exploratory cross-sectional study conducted with twenty-eight at least prefrail, retired participants aged 61–94. Life-space mobility was assessed using the “University of Alabama at Birmingham Life-space Assessment” (LSA) and physical activity using the “German Physical Activity Questionnaire” (PAQ50+). Factors from the category “appropriation”, followed by factors from the category “skills” showed the strongest associations with the LSA. Factors from the category “access” best explained the variance for PAQ50+. This study’s findings indicate the importance of accounting for and examining comprehensive models of mobility. The proposed assessment tools need to be explored in more depth in longitudinal studies with larger sample sizes in order to yield more conclusive results about the appropriateness of the motility concept for such purposes.

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Motility in Frail Older Adults: Operationalization of a New Framework and First Insights into Its Relationship with Physical Activity and Life-Space Mobility: An Exploratory Study

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Zijlstra

Giannouli

2020

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“…While calls have been made to construct quantitative measurements of motility (e.g. De Witte et al, 2013), very few studies to date have attempted to measure its three constituents (Kaufmann et al, 2010, 2018; Viry, 2011; Witter, 2012). Here, we propose a quantitative assessment of motility within a broader model linking mobility and wellbeing.…”

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“…While the concept of motility has been refined over the last decade, quantitative measurements remain scarce and incomplete (e.g. Kaufmann et al, 2018). Kaufmann and colleagues conducted a quantitative operationalisation of motility in the case of commuting.…”

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Mobility among older adults: Deconstructing the effects of motility and movement on wellbeing

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Daily mobility has been shown to contribute to the wellbeing of older adults, as it promotes healthy and independent living. However, very little is known about how the complex relationships between locations, geographic environments and daily mobility relate to wellbeing. In the current paper, we rely on the concept of ‘motility’– defined as potential mobility– and the concept of ‘movement’– defined as actual mobility– to take a step forwards in disentangling the relationship between mobility and wellbeing. We further examine how both motility and movement relate to two complementary definitions of wellbeing: hedonic wellbeing as a measurement of happiness, and eudaimonic wellbeing as the actualisation of an individual’s human potential. To investigate this relationship, we draw up a conceptual framework stressing pathways linking mobility to wellbeing, which we empirically test using structural equation modelling on a stratified sample of 470 older adults. We first quantitatively confirm that motility is defined by access, competences, appropriation and attitudes to modes of transportation. We then observe that motility has direct effects on eudaimonic wellbeing and, to a lesser extent, on hedonic wellbeing. Part of the motility effects on wellbeing are mediated by movement. Separating mobility into motility and movement stresses the independent and complementary role that potential and realised mobility play in shaping older adults’ wellbeing.

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“…Nonetheless, the concept of motility goes further than the idea of accessibility in different ways. For example, the concept of motility draws attention to the fact that a person's potential to be mobile is also shaped by her plans, aptitudes, habits and aspirations (Kaufmann et al, 2017), something that is largely overlooked in the transport accessibility literature. These 'plans' are influenced by social context and social expectations and they play a key role in shaping the extent to which people are willing to mobilize their skills and resources to appropriate the accessibility potential that might be available to them and convert it in actual mobility.…”

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“…feminist, communitarian) and overcome some of the limitations of liberal theories of distributive justice. Finally, the mobilization of the ideas of accessibility as capability and motility to discuss transport justice still needs to overcome significant empirical constraints, despite recent advances in the operationalization of these concepts (Flamm & Kaufmann, 2006;Kaufmann et al, 2017;Ryan et al, 2015;Yang & Day, 2016).…”

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Distributive Justice and Transportation Equity: Inequality in accessibility in Rio de Janeiro

Pereira¹

2018

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Public transport policies play a key role in shaping the social and spatial structure of cities. These policies influence how easily people can access opportunities, including health and educational services and job positions. The accessibility impacts of transport policies thus have important implications for social inequalities and for the promotion of just and inclusive cities. However, in the transportation literature, there is still little theoretically informed understanding of justice and what it means in the context of transport policies. Moreover, few studies have moved beyond descriptive analyses of accessibility inequalities to evaluate how much those inequalities result from transport policies themselves. This is particularly true in cities from the global South, where accessibility and equity have so far remained marginal concerns in the policy realm.This thesis builds on theories of distributive justice and examines how they can guide the evaluation of transport policies and plans. It points to pathways for rigorous assessment of the accessibility impacts of transport policies and it contributes to current discussions on transportation equity. A justice framework is developed to assess the distributional effects of transport policies. This framework is then applied to evaluate recent transport policies developed in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in preparation to host sports mega-events, such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, which included substantial expansion of the rail and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) infrastructure. This research presents ex-post analyses of the policies implemented between 2014 and 2017 and ex-ante analysis of an as yet unfinished BRT project. It evaluates how the planned transport legacy of those mega-events impacted accessibility to sports venues, healthcare facilities, public schools and job opportunities for different income groups. The results show that there were overall accessibility benefits from the expansion in transport infrastructure between 2014 and 2017, but these were generally offset by the reduction in bus service levels that followed an economic crisis that hit the city after the Olympics. Quasi-counterfactual analysis suggests that, even if the city had not been hit by the economic crisis, recent transport investments related to mega-events would have led to higher accessibility gains for wealthier groups and increased inequalities in access to opportunities. Results suggest that those investments had, or would have had, greater impact on inequalities of access to jobs than in access to schools and healthcare facilities. The evaluation of the future accessibility impacts of the unfinished BRT corridor, nonetheless, indicates that such project could significantly improve access to job opportunities for a large share of Rio’s population, particularly lower-income groups. Spatial analysis techniques show that the magnitude and statistical significance of these results depend on the spatial scale and travel time threshold selected for cumulative opportunity accessibility analysis. These results demonstrate that the ad-hoc methodological choices of accessibility analysis commonly used in the academic and policy literature can change the conclusions of equity assessments of transportation projects.

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Measuring and typifying mobility using motility

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Motility in Frail Older Adults: Operationalization of a New Framework and First Insights into Its Relationship with Physical Activity and Life-Space Mobility: An Exploratory Study

Motility in Frail Older Adults: Operationalization of a New Framework and First Insights into Its Relationship with Physical Activity and Life-Space Mobility: An Exploratory Study

Mobility among older adults: Deconstructing the effects of motility and movement on wellbeing

Distributive Justice and Transportation Equity: Inequality in accessibility in Rio de Janeiro

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