Lecture 4 Smart mobility Flashcards
What is a smart city?
- technology
- coherent system
- surveillance
- smart zoning
- adaptive
Criticism of smart city (Hollands, 2008)
The focus is only on technology that they offer. They are not looking for what people actually want and need
Recent critiques on smart cities (Kummitha & Crutzen, 2017)
- Vendor push
- Closed planning
- State-authored market fundamentalism & neoliberalism
- Plugging, reduced socia and cultural capital & failure in addressing inequalities
- Landgrabbing
- Data ethics
- Smart city branding
Components of smart mobility
- Sustainability
- Efficiency
- Smart traffic lights
- Fluent
- Silent
- Shared mobility
Traditional aims of smart mobility (3 reductions)
- Reduction in emission
- Reduction in congestion
- Reduction in consumption
Definition of Smart mobility according to Lyons (2018)
Connectivity in towns and cities that is affordable, effective, attractive and sustainable
Definition of smart mobility according to Docherty (2017)
A personalized ‘service’ available ‘on demand’, with individuals having instant access to a seamless system of clean, green, efficient and flexible transport to meet all of their needs
Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
From ownership to usership: the ability to purchase access rights to an interoperable package of mobility services owned by other providers
The structural change needs:
- New transport options
- Crucial role for data management and governance
- New business models
- Sharing in practice
Example of freefloating (sharing in practice)
e-scooters
Example of back-to-many (sharing in practice)
OV-fietsen
Back-to-one (sharing in practice)
Green wheels and cargo-bikes
