Door-to-Door Mobility Integrators as Keystone Organizations of Smart Ecosystems: Resources and Value Co-Creation – A Literature Review

Cities around the world face major mobility-related challenges, such as traffic congestion and air pollution. One primary cause of these challenges is the decision of citizens to use their private car instead of alternative mobility services such as public transport, car-sharing and bike-sharing. Technological progress offers new possibilities to address these challenges by making alternative mobility services easier and more convenient to use. This paper focuses on door-to-door (D2D) mobility integrators, which aim to offer citizens seamless D2D transport by packaging alternative mobility services. To better understand the practical barriers D2D mobility integrators face, this interdisciplinary literature review provides a holistic picture of their operand and operant resources, revealing significant gaps in our understanding of their capability to attract actors to their ecosystem and to manage value co-creation. Based on these gaps, we identify a potential avenue of future research

Travel chains in urban public transportation: Identifying user needs, travel strategies, and travel information system improvements

The implementation of a functional public transportation network has many benefits for a city, among other things, a way of sustainable mobility. Today, urban areas face the challenge of keeping up with technological trends and encouraging mobility activities using public transportation. For this reason, it is important to understand public transportation user behavior and, consequently, the motives and challenges related to urban travel. Research in the field of urban transportation mainly focuses on systematic and network-related issues to improve the travel experience. However, examining urban travel from a user’s perspective is equally essential to improving a city’s transportation network. With the help of twenty participants, an extensive travel study in the urban area of Zurich took place. The research design consists of a three-step mixed method approach. Data on travel behavior, mobility preferences, and information needs are obtained. The data is explored using an advanced travel chain structure, revealing results in the context of individual travel phases. The results show that urban travel relies heavily on the information apps provide, especially when planning. This need is mainly bound to spatial and temporal properties, for which app elements such as maps, dynamic timetables, and real-time information are most valued. Furthermore, travel using public transportation is approached by evaluating suggested routes according to the journey’s duration, efficiency, and complexity. However, decisions are often based on familiarity with the general area or interchange points. Uncertainties during urban travel are mitigated by walking when suitable, avoiding complex interchanges, and monitoring all phases with the help of an app. User results also indicate no serious issues regarding the City of Zurich as a public transportation provider. Nonetheless, measures could include integrating crowdsourced and context-aware data to meet the demands of adaptive and accurate travel information needs. The broader implications of the thesis outcome support cities and transportation service providers in understanding travel behavior. Consequently, this insight enables them to address specific needs and thus encourage sustainable mobility

Personalized fully multimodal journey planner

We present an advanced journey planner designed to help travellers to take full advantage of the increasingly rich, and consequently more complex offering of mobility services available in modern cities. In contrast to existing systems, our journey planner is capable of planning with the full spectrum of mobility services; combining individual and collective, fixed-schedule as well as on-demand modes of transport, while taking into account individual user preferences and the availability of transport services. Furthermore, the planner is able to personalize journey planning for each individual user by employing a recommendation engine that builds a contextual model of the user from the observation of user’s past travel choices. The planner has been deployed in four large European cities and positively evaluated by hundreds of users in field trialsPeer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Studienlandschaft Schwingbachtal: an out-door full-scale learning tool newly equipped with augmented reality

This paper addresses education and communication in hydrology and geosciences. Many approaches can be used, such as the well-known seminars, modelling exercises and practical field work but out-door learning in our discipline is a must, and this paper focuses on the recent development of a new out-door learning tool at the landscape scale. To facilitate improved teaching and hands-on experience, we designed the Studienlandschaft Schwingbachtal. Equipped with field instrumentation, education trails, and geocache, we now implemented an augmented reality App, adding virtual teaching objects on the real landscape. The App development is detailed, to serve as methodology for people wishing to implement such a tool. The resulting application, namely the Schwingbachtal App, is described as an example. We conclude that such an App is useful for communication and education purposes, making learning pleasant, and offering personalized options

Smart Mobility: a multimodal services study in the metropolitan area of Lisbon

Citizens’ mobility brings great challenges to the cities and smart city\u27s initiatives. This study main goal is to disclosure the current situation of the metropolitan area of Lisbon regarding smart mobility and multimodal mobility systems. The methodological approach of this study consist of collect data from citizens of the metropolitan area of Lisbon, through a survey. We report here empirical study results on citizen awareness of information systems solutions, and their level of usage in their daily lives. Our study results demonstrated the citizens of the metropolitan area of Lisbon are highly unhappy with the available mobility systems and use mainly the private car as transport mode and the importance of multimodal mobility systems were confirmed

A multimodal services study in the metropolitan area of Lisbon

Bernardo, M. R., de Castro Neto, M., & Aparicio, M. (2019). Smart mobility: A multimodal services study in the metropolitan area of Lisbon. In Atas da Conferencia da Associacao Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informacao 2019: 19ª Conferencia da Associacao Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informacao, CAPSI 2019 [19th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems, CAPSI 2019], Lisboa; Portugal; 11 October 2019 through 12 October 2019 (pp. 20). Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação.Citizens’ mobility brings great challenges to the cities and smart city's initiatives. This study main goal is to disclosure the current situation of the metropolitan area of Lisbon regarding smart mobility and multimodal mobility systems. The methodological approach of this study consist of collect data from citizens of the metropolitan area of Lisbon, through a survey. We report here empirical study results on citizen awareness of information systems solutions, and their level of usage in their daily lives. Our study results demonstrated the citizens of the metropolitan area of Lisbon are highly unhappy with the available mobility systems and use mainly the private car as transport mode and the importance of multimodal mobility systems were confirmed.authorsversionpublishe

ATLAS: A new way to exploit world-wide mobility services

Abstract Despite the extent of the ecosystem of mobility services and the disparate functionalities they offer, organizing journeys by properly exploiting them and enhancing their interoperability is still a complex task. Moreover, the high degree of dynamicity characterizing modern service-based systems requires to make them able to self-adapt at runtime. In this paper, we present ATLAS , a world-wide travel assistant able to provide accurate and context-aware traveling solutions, supporting users for the whole travel duration. ATLAS has been realized by exploiting a tool to engineer adaptive by design service-based systems operating in open and dynamic environments

Sustainable mobility governance in smart cities for urban policy development – a scoping review and conceptual model

Purpose The aim of this study is to propose a governance model and key performance indicators on how policy makers can contribute to a more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable mobility within and across smart cities to examine sustainable urban mobility grounded on the rational management of public transportation infrastructure. Design/methodology/approach This study employed desk research methodology grounded on secondary data from existing documents and previous research to develop a sustainable mobility governance model that explores key factors that influence future urban policy development. The collected secondary data was descriptively analyzed to provide initiatives and elements needed to achieve sustainable mobility services in smart cities. Findings Findings from this study provide evidence on how cities can benefit from the application of data from different sources to provide value-added services to promote integrated and sustainable mobility. Additionally, findings from this study discuss the role of smart mobility for sustainable services and the application for data driven initiatives towards sustainable smart cities to enhance mobility interconnectivity, accessibility, and multimodality. Findings from this study identifies technical and non-technical factors that impact the sustainable mobility transition.acceptedVersio

Mobility Design

Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion of digital information systems, we will in future be able to easily combine different modes of transport according to our needs. These developments are a great challenge for the design of different mobility spaces. While the focus in Volume 1 was on practice, Volume 2 now brings together research from the fields of design, architecture, urban planning, geography, social science, transport planning, psychology and communication technology. The current discussion about the traffic turnaround is expanded to include the perspective of user-centred mobility design