Conveners
Parallel session 2: Sustainable mobility in smart cities (Session B)
- Daniela Müller-Eie (University of Stavanger)
- David Mcarthur ()
Parallel session 2: Positive Energy Districts as vehicle towards smart and sustainable cities
- Daniela Baer (SINTEF)
- Monika Heyder (EIFER)
- Gudrun Haindlmaier (University of Vienna/AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Parallel session 2: Enabling Smart Cities: From current communication technologies to 5G and beyond
- Gianfranco Nencioni (University of Stavanger)
- Naeem Khademi (University of Stavanger)
- Chunming Rong (University of Stavanger)
Parallel session 2: Citizenship, citizen participation and citizenship education in the development of Smart and Sustainable Cities: Environmental, science and technology perspectives.
- Barbara Maria Sageidet (University of Stavanger)
- Johana Montalvan Castilla (University of Stavanger)
In his book ‘Smart City Citizenship’, Calzada (2021) proposes a fifth helix in the multi-stakeholder framework of innovation in the smart city, including activists as key drivers. This paper will look to one such demographic that has rediscovered activism in large numbers recently – young people. The paper will examine how young people envision the future ‘smart city’.
Citizenship as a...
Emerging technologies bundled within "smart mobility" represent a new transformation of urban mobility, the practitioners and policymakers must act pro-actively to increase its acceptance among citizens. Smart mobility, largely reliant on — vast numbers of IoT devices, communication technology (ICT), and personal data — can raise privacy concerns. Despite increased studies on privacy concerns...
Positive Energy Districts (PED) are increasing getting attention as an instrument towards climate neutral, smart and inclusive cities. There is much ongoing debate on how to set the scope, boundaries and benchmarks of PEDs. For many local project partners this is confusing. This discussion could be structured by differentiating between four main perspectives from which a PED could be scoped,...
Wireless communications are one of the main technologies that enable the smart cities. How will the future wireless communication technologies impact the future smart cities? First, the current wireless communication technologies will be briefly presented. Then, the fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks will be introduced and the potential impacts and challenges of 5G on future smart cities...
Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), through recent development, have not only enabled simple transactions, but also complex computation on a network where parties are geographically distant or have no particular trust in each other to interact and exchange value and information on a fully distributed basis with fewer to non-existent central intermediaries. There are...
The terms sustainable neighborhoods, eco-neighborhood or eco-districts are often used interchangeably regarding an approach that deals with sustainable neighborhood developments (SNDs) and communities. This proposal aims to examine the great variety of examples that can range greatly in land area from the footprint of complex made up from a small number of buildings to a larger development...
The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily disrupted activities over the past 1.5 years, with huge impacts on transportation. Our research team has launched a large behavioral study to investigate the evolving nature of the impacts of the pandemic, and its temporary vs. longer-term effects on society and transportation. Building on previous data collections from before the pandemic, we administered...
Smart city roadmaps in Scandinavia are actively building upon the keywords of “citizen participation”. Despite the term’s overarching claim to reinvigorate democracy, the introduction of digital technology has, in some contexts, destabilized the definitions of both “citizenship” and “participation” and caused these keywords to be interpreted and implemented vaguely and sometimes...
Positive Energy Blocks are a localised response to the European Energy Transition and the next step beyond zero-energy buildings. They combine local renewable energy generation with energy efficiency measures and a holistic approach to urban energy, including strong stakeholder integration, informed by an ambition towards smart sustainable cities.
Furthermore, they should be well embedded...
Testbed Kungsgatan is an open IoT platform for research and experimentation originally deployed in a commercial street at the center of Norrköping in Sweden. Designed with a focus on supporting a digital twin of the mobility of the street, the Testbed has had to address multiple technical and non-technical problems. With a focus on the flexibility of services that can be supported by our...
Novel cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) have emerged in recent years, in part thanks to rapid and ubiquitous deployment of information and communication (ICT) technologies including on the public road networks. This has been accompanied by significant progress in the field of vehicular automation (e.g., autonomous and self-driving cars), vehicular communication (e.g., V2X),...
There is a widespread acceptance and shift towards sustainable, active and smart mobility solutions in the United Kingdom. However, it cannot be assumed that sustainable solutions are always socially inclusive which often causes social exclusion of minority groups and communities. Moreover, in many migrant families, essentialist gendered views about the role of women and men still prevail,...
This study will do a comparative analysis of mobility transition pathways and practices in the city-districts of Dietenbach in Freiburg (Germany) and Zero Village Bergen (Norway) characterised by different territorially-bounded factors, e.g. planning policy framework, institutional arrangements and actor constellation. The research question is: if and how infrastructural artefacts and digital...
One way to get people involved in citizen science projects is to educate them. Without sufficient training, volunteers will not be able to play an effective role in a citizen science project. The data collected by them will not have enough credibility and quality. For this purpose, in a study, education as an intervening variable was examined. The volunteers were divided into two groups. Group...
