Peter Arnfalk
Senior lecturer
Indicators for Promising Accessibility and Mobility Services
Author
Summary, in English
Cities are increasingly facing major transportation challenges, and new sustainable solutions are needed. New ICT-enabled services can be part of solving the problems, including both improving and finding new transportation services and providing digital access to different services. It is important to identify which services have the best potential for environmental benefits (e.g., travel reduction leading to lesser emissions), economic viability and spread. Such identification can be carried out with the help of indicators. This article uses four types of new accessibility services to test out a previously formulated set of indicators and suggest changes to make them more useful. Using common indicators for transportation and digital accessibility services seem to support collecting and condensing information about the services and simplifies understanding their benefits and challenges. However, a challenge for this approach is finding indicators that are both specific and broad enough to be useful.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2018-08-06
Language
English
Publication/Series
Sustainability
Issue
8
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
MDPI AG
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- ICT
- digitalization
- societal change
- sustainability
- indicators
- Environmental effects of industries and plants
- TD194-195
- Renewable energy sources
- TJ807-830
- Environmental sciences
- GE1-350
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2071-1050