Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents human-centered concepts and solutions for mobility, logistics and infrastructure that will make our growing metropolitan areas more livable and sustainable.The still accelerating megatrend of urbanization is leading to constantly growing metropolitan areas. This creates a whole series of challenges for municipalities, as well as citizens, such as overcrowded traffic routes, limited building space and an increasingly difficult supply situation. With this book we want to answer the following question: How can people live in densely populated areas and meet their needs in terms of mobility, freedom, self-determination, security, prosperity, communication or in other words: how can metropolitan regions be made humane? The answer to this question requires innovative ideas and approaches in various areas:
- Sustainable designs of infrastructure
- Economically and ecologically efficient logistics and mobility approaches
- Intelligent applications for navigation and communication
All these ideas must be measured against the needs of citizens and should thus be developed following a human-centered design approach. This ensures that innovative solutions will be widely accepted by the public. In addition, they also have the potential to turn citizens into active co-designers of future metropolitan areas.
Table of ContentsPart 1 - Developing Sustainable Mobility & Logistics1. Social Transport - An Efficient Concept for Freight Transportation2. The Importance of Process Data Collection Techniques for Urban Logistics Planning3. Off-Peak Delivery as a Cornerstone for Sustainable Urban Logistics: Insights from Germany4. Longer Trucks for Climate-Friendly Transports in Metropolitan Regions5. Electrified Ultralight Vehicles as a Key Element for Door-to-Door Solutions in Urban Areas
Part 2 - Promoting sustainable behavior6. The Intention to Adopt Battery Electric Vehicles in Germany: Driven by Consumer Expectancy, Social Influence, Facilitating Conditions and Ecological Norm Orientation7. Air Taxis as a Mobility Solution for Cities – Empirical Research on Customer Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility8. Electric carsharing in Taiwan9. Bike-Sharing Systems as Integral Components of Inner-City Mobility Concepts: An Analysis of the Intended User Behaviour of Potential and Actual Bike-Sharing Users10. Trust in partially automated driving systems for trucks11. Alternative Ways to Promote Sustainable Consumer Behaviour – Identifying Potentials Based on Spiral Dynamics12. Less Meat, Less Heat – The Potential of Social Marketing to Reduce Meat Consumption
Part 3 - Planning and managing sustainable infrastructure13. What Makes an Inner City Attractive Today and in the Future? – Analysis of Emotional Hotspots Using the City of Stuttgart as an Example14. Creation of a Scoring-Model to Measure the Attractiveness of Middle-Sized City-Centres for Consumers15. Transdisciplinary Living Labs in a Smart Cities Context – Ecosystems for Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship16. Chances for Social Interaction in Public Space Through a Practice of Commoning – Reports of a First Experimental Approach in the Area of Boeckinger Strasse in Stuttgart-Rot17. Financing Sustainable Infrastructure18. Building the city’s business networks – Using business ecosystem visualization to create strategic cooperations in smart cities
Part 4 - Developing digital solutions for the intelligent city19. Development of an Eco-Routing App to Support Sustainable Mobility Behaviour20. Promoting Objective and Subjective Safety for Cyclists in Metropolitan Areas
