Beyond transport alone: justice in the future mobility-energy-housing nexus

The mobility sector faces large sustainability and justice challenges which cannot be solved through mobility solutions alone. With a diverse consortium of researchers and societal partners, JUSTNEXUS fundamentally rethinks mobility and investigates how just sustainability transitions can be fostered at the intersection of mobility, energy and housing.

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The project has several interconnected lines of research. One line focuses on methods for developing future visions for mobility, energy and housing. Another examines how different ownership structures, namely public, private and communal, can contribute to just transitions. Researchers also study business models at the intersection of mobility, energy and housing. Finally, the consortium develops more transparent algorithms that can, for example, regulate the availability of shared electric cars.

The project investigates the diversity in mobility challenges across three real-life cases in the Netherlands: a rural area in Friesland, an existing urban neighbourhood in Amersfoort, and a new urban neighbourhood in Helmond.

Through a “Museum of Future’s Past,” lessons from the project are used to co-create new, just and sustainable visions for the future. This project is funded by NWO (program "Mobility in a Sustainable Future"), the Ministerie van Infrastructuur & Waterstaat, Rasile Group, Louwman Innovation, Gemeente Amersfoort, Gemeente Helmond, Gemeente Leeuwarden, Studio Bereikbaar, CROW and Groene Huisvesters.

Societal relevance

By combining imagination with experiments, the project aims to produce alternative visions of the future, transparent decision-making algorithms, templates for business and governance models, and lasting multi-stakeholder learning communities. In the learning communities, the consortium and external stakeholders co-create intersectoral knowledge to achieve the goal of the project: accelerating just sustainability transitions at the intersection of mobility-energy-housing.

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