Guiding cities to pursue a smart mobility paradigm: An example from vehicle routing guidance and its traffic and operational effects

Melo, Sandra; Macedo, Joaquim; Baptista, Patrícia

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2017.09.007

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“…The smart mobility concept largely comes with promises about addressing traffic flow and traffic safety issues, which is in line with the academic literature, where most often promises are made about the reduction of congestions [4,12,13,28], improvement of traffic management [3,5,7,11,30], and contribution to increased traffic safety [12,13,28]. To address such collective issues, smart mobility solutions target the road user by providing travel support during different moments of the trip, as found in the Dutch case.…”

Section: Smart Mobility: Individualistic Car-based Solutions To Addrementioning

confidence: 54%

“…To address such collective issues, smart mobility solutions target the road user by providing travel support during different moments of the trip, as found in the Dutch case. The innovations focus on driving, such as providing the driver real-time traffic information, driving assistance advice, speed advice, fastest and/or most environmental friendly route navigation, and lane keep advice [3][4][5]8,10,27]. Next to on-trip services, pre-trip and post-trip information is also provided, such as route planning applications, or real-time parking information.…”

Section: Smart Mobility: Individualistic Car-based Solutions To Addrementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept emerged around 2010 in relation to a variety of information and communication technology innovations in the mobility sector and more technologically advanced and user-centric traffic management innovations [2][3][4][5][6]. The concept has been brought forward as a possible solution to several urban transport issues, and is linked to the smart city debate [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. In the discussions on transformative change, smart mobility is considered an alternative, more pragmatic, approach to the complex notion of sustainable mobility [6,10,11,13,14].…”

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Unpacking the Smart Mobility Concept in the Dutch Context Based on a Text Mining Approach

Manders

Klaassen²

2019

Sustainability

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Existing mobility solutions are criticized for falling short of effectively addressing transport issues and sustainability challenges. In this light, smart mobility has received increasing attention. In the Netherlands, the smart mobility concept triggered various developments, leading to the uptake of initiatives for real-life experimentation, accompanied by an increase in media attention. While the concept is making its way through Dutch society, its meaning for practice remains unspecified. Therefore, this paper aims to unpack the meaning of the smart mobility concept, by analyzing Dutch news articles and initiatives' websites using text mining and qualitative content analysis. The analyses reveal some ambiguous meanings for the smart mobility concept, demonstrating on the one hand a focus on incremental technological innovations that bring forward car-based solutions for short-term fixes, while on the other hand promising to address car-related issues and fundamentally change the mobility system by taking long-term challenges into account. In general, smart mobility seems to be about optimizations and maintaining the status quo rather than challenging it, although there are a few deviating and more critical voices. The smart mobility concept mobilizes actors and resources, but considering the ambiguities, these developments should be critically evaluated when proposed as solutions to transport issues and sustainability challenges.Sustainability 2019, 11, 6583 2 of 24 program promoting innovation and real-life experimentation [14,20], and a smart mobility test center in the southern region of the country [21]. While at first the concept was used by specific circles within the traffic management field, the concept is now making its way through Dutch society as it is being introduced to the wider public. This uptake is a consequence of real-life experimentation and the ability to experience smart mobility possibilities in practice, accompanied by an increase in media attention. The number of news articles that mention the concept has been increasing since 2015. In addition, there is an increase in the number of initiatives that start to relate to smart mobility, thereby mobilizing the concept [14]. These initiatives range from traffic information services to multi-modal travel planners, and from communicating automated vehicles to car-sharing services.The smart mobility concept comes in many different forms and shapes, and while it increases the interest of the wider public and triggers the uptake of several initiatives, it is still unclear what the concept entails and how it relates to the sustainability challenges of the mobility system as its meaning for practice remains unspecified. Therefore, in this paper, we are interested in the following research question:What is the meaning of the smart mobility concept in the Dutch context? We address this question by unpacking smart mobility for the Dutch case using two sources: news articles and websites of the initiatives. First, we use Dutch news articles as a sou...

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Section: Smart Mobility: Individualistic Car-based Solutions To Addrementioning

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Section: Smart Mobility: Individualistic Car-based Solutions To Addrementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Unpacking the Smart Mobility Concept in the Dutch Context Based on a Text Mining Approach

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2019

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“…In the Statute, this means the right to urban land, housing, environmental sanitation, urban infrastructure, transportation and public services, work and leisure, appropriate to the interests and needs of the population and local characteristics, for those present and future generations. Several authors [100,108,[110][111][112][113][114][115] cite these characteristics as important for increasing the intelligence of cities.…”

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Smart and Sustainable Cities: The Main Guidelines of City Statute for Increasing the Intelligence of Brazilian Cities

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The regulation of urban property use is a fundamental instrument for the development of cities. However, most of the norms that set general guidelines for urban policy predate the transformations that the smart city concept has brought about in the way cities are appropriated and perceived by society, and even today, studies on how these regulations collaborate to make cities smarter and more sustainable. This work contributes to filling this gap by investigating the main guidelines of the Brazilian City Statute that have the greatest potential to contribute to having smarter and more sustainable Brazilian cities. To prioritize the sixteen guidelines of the City Statute, the methodology used consisted of a survey carried out with professionals working in the concerned field. The results show that the sixteen guidelines were evaluated as important for increasing the intelligence of cities, of which five were evaluated as having the most priority, these five were related to the governance of cities. Considering the scarcity of resources in Brazilian cities, these five guidelines contribute so that municipal governments can direct their efforts towards what has the most priority.

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“…Tekin (2017) concentrates on Turkey's smart city projects and notes that such projects are successful only when adequate attention is paid to a project's infrastructural dimension, its policy areas and scope, and to key performance indicators. Melo et al (2017) concentrate on Lisbon, Portugal and show that ICTs can be used to provide guidance information to drivers and that the provision of such information reduces travel times and improves the efficiency of road use in this city. Finally, Batabyal and Nijkamp (2019) utilize a dynamic model and chronicle some of the ways in which ICTs can enhance economic growth in smart cities.…”

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The optimal provision of information and communication technologies in smart cities

Batabyal

Beladi

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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We exploit the public good attributes of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy of two smart cities in which ICTs are provided in either a decentralized or a centralized manner. We first determine the efficient ICT levels that maximize the aggregate surplus from the provision of ICTs in the two cities. Second, we compute the optimal level of ICT provision in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on the ICTs is financed by a uniform tax on the city residents. Third, we ascertain the optimal level of ICT provision in the two cities in a centralized regime subject to equal provision of ICTs and cost sharing. Fourth, we show that if the two cities have the same preference for ICTs then centralization is preferable to decentralization as long as there is a spillover from the provision of ICTs. Finally, we show that if the two cities have dissimilar preferences for ICTs then centralization is preferable to decentralization as long as the spillover exceeds a certain threshold.

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Guiding cities to pursue a smart mobility paradigm: An example from vehicle routing guidance and its traffic and operational effects

Cited by 45 publications

References 31 publications

Unpacking the Smart Mobility Concept in the Dutch Context Based on a Text Mining Approach

Unpacking the Smart Mobility Concept in the Dutch Context Based on a Text Mining Approach

Smart and Sustainable Cities: The Main Guidelines of City Statute for Increasing the Intelligence of Brazilian Cities

The optimal provision of information and communication technologies in smart cities

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