Moscholidou, I, Marsden, G orcid.org/0000-0003-3570-2793 and Pangbourne, K (2023) Steering Smart Mobility Services: Lessons from Seattle, Greater Manchester and Stockholm. Sustainability, 15 (5). 4566. ISSN 2071-1050
Abstract
This paper explores how three cities (Seattle, Greater Manchester and Stockholm) have approached the governance of smart mobility services in the early stages of their introduction. The research finds that cities have limited steering capacity, and when they do steer services this is done on the assumption that smart mobility will deliver wider social, environmental and economic good. While broad-ranging benefits are yet to materialise to any identifiable degree, the potential for smart mobility to tackle some of the challenges of automobility undoubtedly remains, and the new services are acting to change mobility patterns in cities, at least for some people. We focus on the need to develop clear accountability arrangements between the public and the private sector, which we see as a necessary element of a collaborative governance approach that allows both sides to identify shared goals and maximise their achievement. However, we stress that developing a collaborative approach requires cities to govern with intent, which means that services need to be deployed or permitted with clear objectives and an understanding of their anticipated impacts.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | governance; smart mobility; sustainable transport; accountability; innovation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Sustainable Transport Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2023 15:56 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2023 15:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su15054566 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:197459 |