A Dynamic Information-Based Parking Guidance for Megacities considering Both Public and Private Parking

The constantly increasing number of cars in the megacities is causing severe parking problems. To resolve this problem, many cities adopt parking guidance system as a part of intelligent transportation system (ITS). However, the current parking guidance system stays in its infant stage since the obtainable information is limited. To enhance parking management in the megacity and to provide better parking guidance to drivers, this study introduces an intelligent parking guidance system and proposes a new methodology to operate it. The introduced system considers both public parking and private parking so that it is designed to maximize the use of spatial resources of the city. The proposed methodology is based on the dynamic information related parking in the city and suggests the best parking space to each driver. To do this, two kinds of utility functions which assess parking spaces are developed. Using the proposed methodology, different types of parking management policies are tested through the simulation. According to the experimental test, it is shown that the centrally managed parking guidance can give better results than individually preferred parking guidance. The simulation test proves that both a driver???s benefits and parking management of a city from various points of view can be improved by using the proposed methodology

The Challenging Path to a Redistribution of Space – Renegotiating Urban Mobility

The (rapid) growth of cities and city populations in many regions of the world puts a focus on the question of accessibility (use and distribution) of urban space. In consequence, the long-prevailing hegemony of the principle of car-friendly cities is being challenged, and political as well as societal mindsets towards individually possessed cars seem to be changing. Nonetheless, more sustainable forms of mobility will need different legal and economic frameworks, and will need to be more demand-orientated and smarter in order to become a real alternative. From a technological perspective, new regulations on the reduction of (CO2), NOx and particulate matter have been passed by the European Parliament in 2015, while smart forms of mobility such as carsharing, e-mobility, and automated driving are being supported and subsidized by local and national governments. Both, regulations and incentives from the market are pushing companies to innovate. From a socio-political perspective, the (re-)distribution of the increasingly scarce resource urban space and the manner of its utilization is a challenge which affects all population groups, but in different ways. Questions arising in this context are: How to actually initiate a process of transformation towards a more sustainable urban mobility? What future quality(s) of life will we have in demographically changing societies and which forms of mobility are more adequate to future needs than individual possession of cars? This is exactly where our transdisciplinary project in Berlin/Germany takes off: place-based approaches promoting more sustainable forms of local mobility are being combined with iterative bottom-up approaches of discussion, information and playful testing of new forms of mobility for civil society, stakeholders, administrators and politicians. One and a half year into the project, it becomes obvious that urban mobility is a highly contested and emotionalized topic where fear of loss (of the individually possessed car and its parking space) clashes with misinformation, non-reflection of individual mobility behavior and demand, and different esthetic preferences on how public space should be designed. This contribution presents intermediary results from a research project in Berlin/ Germany (http://neue-mobilitaet.berlin/) where local actors together with administrators, politicians, mobility providers and researchers are about to develop and test adequate strategies towards more sustainable local mobility. These intermediary results can be summarized as follows: 1) In order to develop a truly different, and less emotional approach to (sustainable) mobility, intensive communication with different groups and across these groups is necessary. 2) Smartness in the mobility sector is not merely the introduction of innovative technology-based solutions but needs to be understood as a process of multilateral information, discussion, and exchange

Review of Good Practices in the Introduction of Traffic Management Systems and Urban Mobility

Mobility, as one of the most significant factors in maintaining the quality of life in cities, faces problems such as traffic congestion and environmental pollution. The rapid population growth in urban areas has had an impact on increased traffic, which is why many cities have decided to implement or improve existing intelligent transport systems (ITS) that reduce traffic congestion with more comfortable and safer pedestrian traffic. Although the population in developed and densely populated cities is familiar with multimodal transportation, inadequate urban transport systems and large individual transport in place continue to pose a major threat. The application of appropriate ITS systems manages traffic and mobility management that are present to residents and facilitate access to all forms of transport. The aim of this paper is to explore urban mobility examples of good traffic management practice for the possibility of their application in cities with issues such as traffic jams and accidents, low pedestrian safety, parking problems, etc

Review of Good Practices in the Introduction of Traffic Management Systems and Urban Mobility

Mobility, as one of the most significant factors in maintaining the quality of life in cities, faces problems such as traffic congestion and environmental pollution. The rapid population growth in urban areas has had an impact on increased traffic, which is why many cities have decided to implement or improve existing intelligent transport systems (ITS) that reduce traffic congestion with more comfortable and safer pedestrian traffic. Although the population in developed and densely populated cities is familiar with multimodal transportation, inadequate urban transport systems and large individual transport in place continue to pose a major threat. The application of appropriate ITS systems manages traffic and mobility management that are present to residents and facilitate access to all forms of transport. The aim of this paper is to explore urban mobility examples of good traffic management practice for the possibility of their application in cities with issues such as traffic jams and accidents, low pedestrian safety, parking problems, etc

Towards sustainable mobility : New solutions and approaches for Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans

Sustainable mobility is a very relevant approach within the novel paradigm of smart cities. Modern urban areas have been built around automobiles, limiting pedestrian zones and reducing the circulation space for others sustainable transportation modes. Mobility have resulted in growing levels of motorization and congestion, causing many environmental problems, accidents on roads and lack of accessibility. The need of moving towards sustainable mobility is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 people will have a better quality of lives. This thesis proposes studying and analyzing good practices, measures, and urban planning approaches of sustainable development successfully applied in other countries, which can help as good examples to be applied in Montevideo. Also, the thesis proposes designing sustainable mobility plans to limit the use of private vehicles by improving public transportation, encouraging sustainable transportation modes, creating pedestrian zones, and changing the negative transformation caused by automobile dominance. The main contributions of this thesis are: reviewing the most relevant works related to sustainable mobility around the world and in our country; analyzing and characterizing sustainable initiatives of public transportation in Montevideo; demonstrating the viability of implementing a sustainable mobility plan in an specific area of Montevideo considering subjective opinions of people traveling from/to the area; and evaluating the same specific area of Montevideo using Transit Oriented Development, a well-known planning approach for sustainable development. The applied methodologies include urban data analysis (using operational data, personal inspection and a survey), mobility indicators and Transit Oriented Develpment (TOD) metrics. The main results of the study are that the coverage area of the sustainable mobility initiatives is a small fraction of the total area of the city, thus a significant part of the population of Montevideo cannot access to sustainable transportation modes; regarding Parque Rodó and Engineering Faculty, most of the people travel from/to near locations (less than 5 kms); land use in the studied area is diverse and it shows a reasonable compactness and good degree of functional mix which suggests that the impact of implementing a sustainable mobility plan in the area will have notable results. Overall, this thesis contributes as a tools for helping academics, transportation companies, and stakeholders to analyze and evaluate possible solutions to implement sustainable mobility plans. The mobility analysis of Parque Rodo neigborhood as TOD approach is the first academic work developed for a specific area in Montevideo. Regarding the replicability of the study, the proposed methodologies can be applied to characterize the mobility demands and the sustainable mobility analysis on other relevant neighborhoods in the city. In addition, the reported case of study in Parque Rodó neighborhood provides a basis for building more powerful surveys and data collection activities to better understand sustainable mobility in the whole city

Applying Lapor Sleman to Increase Public Participation

This paper aims to analyze the utilizing Lapor Sleman as smart governance to increase public participation year 2018. Smart economy, smart governance, smart environment, smart people, smart mobility, and smart living are currently an innovations that continue to be developed in Indonesia as one step in applying technology to a broader sector. Smart governance became one of the important component among the six characteristics of smart city. Smart governance consists of aspects that encourage citizen participation in decision making and transparent governance. Collaboration between community and government, and the community involvement in giving advice and criticism of the government’s performance became the main things in smart governance. Lapor Sleman is existed as one of the manifestations of smart regency to improve public services by following the dynamics of people's lives, technological developments and communication.This research used exploratory descriptive qualitative method.The results of the study reveals the utilization of Lapor Sleman is expected to be able to support community activities in reporting and complaints and assisting the government in developing Sleman Regency. In spite of that, there are still many problems occuring in the use of lapor sleman

Mobility and IoT for the Smart Cities

This book compiles relevant expanded versions of the best articles presented at the Second Ibero-American Congress of Smart Cities (ICSC-CITIES 2019), published in the Special Issue “Mobility and IoT for the Smart Cities” in Smart Cities, MDPI. This book includes articles on urban mobility, as well as on integrated sensors in cities, two relevant subjects related to the development of modern smart cities moving towards sustainability

The Role of the Built Environment in Human Life. Selected Issues

This article attempts to outline the nature of research on space urbanised by people and to determine the four main fields of research aimed at the problems of man and the built environment. In the next part, particular attention is paid to issues related to the impact of the built environment on the life of its residents in order to highlight the particular role and complexity of this area of research. This study, acting as a kind of test of the research, cannot be considered representative. Nevertheless, the analysis prompts several reflections on the current and future role of the built environment in the development of our civilisation, as well as further challenges related to it