Introduction: Comparing Mobility Revolutions

Transportation systems have undergone several revolutions over the past centuries. But this is the first time that multiple revolutions take place simultaneously. Decarbonization, digitalization and automation promise to address some of the most pressing concerns usually associated to mobility. How these three revolutions will interact is still unclear. Even less is known about the peculiar trajectories they are going to follow in each country or region. This Special Issue aims at exploring the legal dimensions of the mobility revolutions from a comparative perspective. In this introduction, we first describe the likely impact of the three revolutions on the regulation of transport systems. We then identify the legal dimensions which can be expected to be more tightly linked to regional, national and local features of transport systems. Our argument is that those features will drive the choices about the new mobility paradigms. This introduction also provides an overview of the fourteen contributions in the Special Issue.