Chapter 6 Who Benefits from Smart Mobility Policies? The Social Construction of Winners and Losers in the Connected Bikes Projects in the Netherlands
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- Editor(s): Greg Marsden , Louise Reardon ISBN: 978-1-78754-320-1 eISBN: 978-1-78754-317-1
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We analysed the unequal treatment of target groups and the role of technology in Dutch smart mobility policy, by looking into the connected bike projects of Maastricht and Brabant. In doing so we combined insights from the Social Construction of Policy Design frameworks and Science and Technology Studies. We identified four target groups, receiving a differential treatment in policy. Difference in treatment is driven by the variety of incentives used to encourage behaviour change. We conclude that car users are the winners, while students benefit the least from these projects. In this preferential treatment, technology plays a crucial role. This raises pertinent questions about social equity and the contribution to sustainability of smart mobility technologies in the mobility system. - Keywords:
- Connected bike, Social construction and policy design, target populations, cycling policy, science and technology studies
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- Edgar Salas Gironés , , Darja Vrščaj , (2018), Who Benefits from Smart Mobility Policies? The Social Construction of Winners and Losers in the Connected Bikes Projects in the Netherlands, in Greg Marsden , Louise Reardon (ed.) Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition, pp.85 - 101
Chapter 3 The Case of Mobility as a Service: A Critical Reflection on Challenges for Urban Transport and Mobility Governance
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This chapter provides a reflective critique of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), an emerging development seeking a role within the Smart Mobility paradigm. We assess a range of its future implications for urban policymakers in terms of governance and sustainability (i.e., social and environmental impacts). We begin by describing the origins of the MaaS concept, along with the features of precursor technologies and current early examples. We then reflect on the marketing of MaaS and use it to consider how we might anticipate some potentially less desirable aspects of the promoted business models. Finally, we discuss the implications for governance.
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- Smart mobility, governance, sustainability, Mobility as a Service
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- Kate Pangbourne , , Dominic Stead , , Miloš Mladenović , , Dimitris Milakis , (2018), The Case of Mobility as a Service: A Critical Reflection on Challenges for Urban Transport and Mobility Governance, in Greg Marsden , Louise Reardon (ed.) Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition, pp.33 - 48
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This chapter provides a reflective critique of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), an emerging development seeking a role within the Smart Mobility paradigm. We assess a range of its future implications for urban policymakers in terms of governance and sustainability (i.e., social and environmental impacts). We begin by describing the origins of the MaaS concept, along with the features of precursor technologies and current early examples. We then reflect on the marketing of MaaS and use it to consider how we might anticipate some potentially less desirable aspects of the promoted business models. Finally, we discuss the implications for governance.
Chapter 4 Smart Mobility: Disrupting Transport Governance?
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Transport governance is dependent on, and works through, legally defined or socially accepted categories that are challenged by the technological and business disruptions that characterize smart mobility. This chapter explores the dynamic interactions between the categories of transport governance and new (disruptive) forms of mobility, using a framework that highlights the ways governance solutions are influenced by how problems are framed. The argument is made through two empirical cases – of car sharing and motorized (electric) personal mobility devices. Car sharing emerged quietly onto the transport landscape in Australia, and has been accommodated and facilitated by local government parking policies. In this case, the tools for governing smart mobility already existed, and became adaptable to new imperatives. Personal mobility devices (PMDs), battery-powered motorized devices designed to be used by an individual on footpaths or shared user paths, are neither common nor legal on many roads or footpaths. The process through which PMDs became regulated in the Australian state of Queensland is used to illustrate the ways in which ‘epistemic experimentation’ can challenge regulatory framings and foster the introduction of new forms of smart mobility. The chapter concludes that smart mobility both disrupts and confirms dominant framings of transport governance, especially in relation to automobility, and that further challenges will need to be met as autonomous vehicles become more widespread across transport infrastructure. - Keywords:
- First-and-last mile, electric mobility, car-sharing, technological disruption, framing
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- Robyn Dowling , (2018), Smart Mobility: Disrupting Transport Governance?, in Greg Marsden , Louise Reardon (ed.) Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition, pp.51 - 64
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