Smart City L'Aquila: An Application of the "Infostructure" Approach to Public Urban Mobility in a Post-Disaster Context

《Smart City L'Aquila: An Application of the "Infostructure" Approach to Public Urban Mobility in a Post-Disaster Context》

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关键字: Urban mobility; spatial accessibility analysis; infostructures; open-source software; transit data; smart city; post-disaster; SUPPORT-SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKE; CITIES; COPRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGY; CHALLENGES; ENGAGEMENT; MEDIA; APPS; GIS

作者单位: [Falco, Enzo] Delft Univ Technol, Fac Architecture & Built Environm, Dept OTB Res Built Environm, Smart Urban Governance, Delft, Netherlands. [Malavolta, Ivano] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Sci, Dept Comp Sci, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Radzimski, Adam] Gran Sasso Sci Inst, GSSI Social Sci, Laquila, Italy. [Radzimski, Adam] Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Fac Geog & Geol Sci, Poznan, Poland. [Ruberto, Stefano; Iovino, Ludovico] Gran Sasso Sci Inst, GSSI Comp Sci, Laquila, Italy. [Gallo, Francesco] Univ Aquila, Dept Informat Engn Comp Sci & Math, Comp Sci, Laquila, Italy. Falco, E (reprint author), Delft Univ Technol, Fac Architecture & Built Environm, Dept OTB Res Built Environm, Julianalaan 134, NL-2628 BL Delft, Netherlands. E-Mail: e.falco@tudelft.nl

摘要: Ever since the earthquake of April 6, 2009 hit the city of L'Aquila, Italy, the city has been facing major challenges in terms of social, physical, and economic reconstruction. The system of public urban mobility, the bus network, is no exception with its old bus fleet, non-user-friendly information, and poor scheduling. This paper argues that the public transportation system of L'Aquila could be improved towards smart mobility models without large infrastructure investment by leveraging the infostructure approach, digital technologies, open data, and open source software. This work presents the digitization and geo-referencing procedure, software architecture, and the web and mobile apps that have been developed to improve the information flow available to citizens and to increase the user-friendliness of the transportation system. Future research will seek to make use of the data and develop applications to perform a public transport accessibility analysis of major points of interest throughout the city.