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A future of shared mobility
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal,
10
(4),
328-333
(2017)
Abstract
Shared mobility is transforming the way we move around cities and is challenging consolidated transport modes such as the private car, taxi and public transit. While shared mobility has immense potential to improve the efficiency of personal transport and, hence, reduce emissions, this paper makes the case that shared mobility per se is not sufficient to achieve this important goal. Rather, shared mobility services should be designed and integrated with other transport modes having carbon emission reduction as an explicit optimisation goal. This observation prompts a call for the development of accurate models and analytical tools for the estimation of the city-level benefits of different forms of shared mobility, and of their integration. Examples of these tools are briefly reviewed and discussed in this paper.
Keywords: urban mobility; shared economy; vehicle sharing; ride sharing; shared mobility models
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Author's Biography
Paolo Santi is Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab where he leads the MIT/Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility initiative, and a Senior Research at the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Pisa. Dr Santi holds a ‘Laurea’ degree and a PhD in computer science from the University of Pisa, Italy. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and has recently been recognised as Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery. His research interest is in the modeling and analysis of complex systems ranging from wireless multi hop networks to sensor and vehicular networks and, more recently, smart mobility and intelligent transportation systems. In these fields, he has contributed more than 130 scientific papers and two books. Dr Santi has been Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, and Guest Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE.
Carlo Ratti is an architect and engineer by training and teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects — the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel — were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 people who will change the world’. He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, and as special advisor on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.
