Simulation Games to Study Transportation Issues and Solutions: Studies on Synchromodality

Kourounioti, Ioanna; Kurapati, Shalini; Lukosch, Heide; Tavasszy, Lóránt; Verbraeck, Alexander

doi:10.1177/0361198118792334

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“…Finally, our participatory modelling approach is based on a simulation game that represents a real STS at a certain level of abstraction, and participants who work together to complete the aim of the game (Kourounioti et al, 2018). The idea behind engaging with stakeholders this way is to promote:…”

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Playing With Uncertainty: Facilitating Community-Based Resilience Building

Avendano-Uribe

Lukosch²,

Milke³

2022

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Resilience has become a fundamental paradigm for communities to deal with disaster planning. Formal methods are used to prioritise and decide about investments for resilience. Strategies and behaviour need to be developed that cannot be based on formal modelling only because the human element needs to be incorporated to build community resilience. Participatory modelling and gaming are methodological approaches that are based on realistic data and address human behaviour. These approaches enable stakeholders to develop, adjust, and learn from interactive models and use this experience to inform their decision-making.<em> </em>In our contribution, we explore which physical and digital elements from serious games can be used to design a participatory approach in community engagement and decision-making. Our ongoing research aims to bring multiple stakeholders together to understand, model, and decide on the trade-offs and tensions between social and infrastructure investments toward community resilience building. Initial observations allow us as researchers to systematically document the benefits and pitfalls of a game-based approach. We will continue to develop a participatory modelling exercise for resilience planning with university graduate students and resilience experts within academia in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Playing With Uncertainty: Facilitating Community-Based Resilience Building

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Lukosch²,

Milke³

2022

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“…In literature SGs have been already applied but mostly for passenger transport ( [25] [26], [27], [28], [29]), while the freight transport examples remain limited ( [30], [31], [32], [33], [34]. In previous work [32] discuss the use of games for the governance of the transport system in a whole, and to create awareness for sycnhromodal transport solutions in particular. In [35]students were given the role of economic agents that interacted with truckers to study the formation of the truck tour.…”

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Data collection on Shipper’s Preferences Using Simulation Games: : A Synchromodality Case Study

Kourounioti

Tavaszzy

2020

2020 Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS)

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The development of new more efficient freight transportation services requires in depth understanding of the engaged stakeholders behavior. Simulation Games (SG) have been used to study decisions and raise awareness over complex transport problems. This paper investigates the possibility of applying a simulation game as an innovative data collection tool for choices related to freight transport. Games sessions were organised with Dutch logistics managers and data on their choices for synchromodal services were collected.Model results revealed reliability, costs and reduced work load as key factors making shippers to opt for more synchromodal services.

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“…Freese, Lukosch, Wegener and König Serious games as research instruments -Do's and don'ts from a cross-case-analysis in transportation Games as research instruments in freight transportation. Serious games are an accepted tool in exploring freight transportation aspects as shown in the works of several authors (Kourounioti et al, 2018;Kurapati et al, 2015;Kurapati et al, 2017;Meijer, 2009). While Meijer (2009) addresses a problem on a strategic level, Kurapati et al (2015) suggest the use of short games on an operational level in transportation.…”

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“…While Meijer (2009) addresses a problem on a strategic level, Kurapati et al (2015) suggest the use of short games on an operational level in transportation. Kurapati et al (2017) as well as Kourounioti et al (2018) discuss the use of games for the governance of the transport system as a whole, and awareness for synchromodal transport solutions in particular. The above studies have shown that serious games are valuable research instruments on different levels in freight transportation, as they represent controllable, safe environments that allow both for experimentation and for observation of behaviour and decision-making processes.…”

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Serious games as research instruments – Do’s and don’ts from a cross-case-analysis in transportation

Freese

Lukosch

Wegener

et al. 2020

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

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Serious games as research instruments are seen as a special type of participatory modelling, allowing a researcher to observe the behaviour and decisions taken by players. Yet, games have their own dynamics and come with certain challenges when used as a research instrument. This article reports on specific challenges in using games as research instruments in the domain of transportation. Therefore, three digital games from the transportation sub-systems freight transport, airport management and public transport are presented. The cases are analysed according to the challenges faced during the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, usage as research instrument, and evaluation. Based on this cross-case analysis of the research games, Do’s and Don’ts as well as practical recommendations are derived to support researchers and practitioners in applying serious games as research instruments in transportation. The new ReDIRE-framework to analyse serious games for research purposes is presented for this aim. Design guidelines resulting from our contribution can be helpful for game designers and researchers alike.

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Simulation Games to Study Transportation Issues and Solutions: Studies on Synchromodality

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Playing With Uncertainty: Facilitating Community-Based Resilience Building

Playing With Uncertainty: Facilitating Community-Based Resilience Building

Data collection on Shipper’s Preferences Using Simulation Games: : A Synchromodality Case Study

Serious games as research instruments – Do’s and don’ts from a cross-case-analysis in transportation

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