TY - JOUR
T1 - Smart City L’Aquila
T2 - An Application of the “Infostructure” Approach to Public Urban Mobility in a Post-Disaster Context
AU - Falco, Enzo
AU - Malavolta, Ivano
AU - Radzimski, Adam
AU - Ruberto, Stefano
AU - Iovino, Ludovico
AU - Gallo, Francesco
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - infostructures
KW - open-source software
KW - post-disaster
KW - smart city
KW - spatial accessibility analysis
KW - transit data
KW - Urban mobility
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U2 - 10.1080/10630732.2017.1362901
DO - 10.1080/10630732.2017.1362901
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030567314
SN - 1063-0732
VL - 25
SP - 99
EP - 121
JO - Journal of Urban Technology
JF - Journal of Urban Technology
IS - 1
ER -