Public transport or a short-term car rental – the new social practices perspectives.

This paper analyzes how the same commuters use public transport and short-term rental cars to get to work and universities. Its purpose is to identify the specific contextual elements (benchmarks for valuations, activities, and assets used) of the two practices - public transport and short-term car rental - and investigated whether commuters create urban mobility practices rather than simply adopt new offers. We discuss how the providers inspired the changes in the repertoire of mobility practices, how other stakeholders contribute or not to this change and how commuters create their practices independent of the providers of the services. We conceptualize the consumer enrichment as their ability to perform a diverse repertoire of practices. Based on a qualitative research method (33 individual interviews with public transport and car-per-minute users, aged 19-25) and the map of practices we suggest that researchers and policy makers interested in transformations of mobility practices should consider practices that are mediated by the mobility and not to be limited to modality problems. Transformations of non-mobility social practices can inspire changes in mobility, including its reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]