Peter Arnfalk
Senior lecturer
Aaas and maas for reduced environmental and climate impact of transport creating indicators to identify promising digital service innovations for reduced demand and optimized use of transport resources
Author
Editor
- B. Penzenstadler
- S. Easterbrook
- C. Venters
- S. I. Ahmed
Summary, in English
In this paper, a set of indicators is presented that aim to identify promising service innovations for Accessibility as a Service (AaaS) and Mobility as a Service (MaaS); services that potentially can reduce the demand for transport and optimize use of transport infrastructure and vehicles in urban regions. The proposed indicators characterize service innovations from three different perspectives: 1) Is the service innovation environmentally sustainable? Does it reduce negative impacts on the environment (reduce carbon emissions, use of space), 2) Is it rewardable? Is value created for an organization? Does it make use of new sustainable business models, and 3) How widely is the service spread? How many users are there, what is the geographic distribution and what level of societal transition has occurred? The developed indicators are meant to guide policy makers, decision makers, business developers and academia in the prioritizations that need to be made when allocating land and resources to the most promising and powerful innovations, moving towards more environmentally friendly mobility and accessibility. The next step will be to test the indicators to identify and categorize existing and emerging new services, ideas, pilots and prototypes. The results of this second step will be presented in our next article.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2018
Language
English
Pages
137-152
Publication/Series
EPiC Series in Computing
Volume
52
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Civil Engineering
Conference name
5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability, ICT4S 2018
Conference date
2018-05-14 - 2018-05-18
Conference place
Toronto, Canada
Status
Published