Nordic Experiences of Smart Mobility: Emerging Services and Regulatory Frameworks
In a time where emerging technologies bundled within ‘Smart mobility’ represent a new transformation of the mobility system, it is critical that governments pro-actively steer digitalisation to ensure the benefits of innovative technologies and development towards a sustainable mobility system - avoiding the risk of increased attractiveness of private motorized transport (Kristoffersson et al., 2017; Schiller, 2016). New technologies have the potential to disrupt existing market structures entirely. The digital transformation of mobility is happening now, and existing legal and regulatory frameworks may not be prepared for accommodating new and innovative services. It is therefore critical to gain more thorough understanding on how regulatory frameworks and sector governance may adapt to the rapid development in technologies that public authorities are facing in the transport sector. The objective of this paper is therefore to establish the state of affairs on emerging technologies and services in the mobility sector and their disruptive qualities and to analyse potential outcomes of different regulatory frameworks. In the socio-technical transition of the smart mobility system, the authors can identify four core elements (Docherty et al. 2018): 1) the transition from ownership to usership, 2) the transition in the definition of the marketplace that is mobility, 3) the transition from a modal-centric to a user-centric system and 4) the transition in the role of the citizen in the transport system. Inspired by this framework the authors analyse new and emerging mobility initiatives in Norway, Finland and Sweden along these four dimensions. The paper sets out with a literature review related to emergence and governance of smart mobility in the Nordic Countries, with additional outlook against developments in Europe and globally. This overview develops a typology of digital concepts for shared and integrated mobility, which cover public and private transport as well as active modes. Next, the authors identify governance frameworks, initiatives and practices in the Nordic countries. This section consists of a deeper examination of the current regulatory landscape and planned renewals related to market entry, allocation of responsibilities and data policies in Finland, Sweden and Norway through document analysis and interviews. Finally, the authors perform a comparative analysis across the Nordic countries on differences and similarities in smart mobility uptake and regulatory frameworks and outcomes in data policies and markets. The authors compare the regulatory frameworks in the Nordic countries related to market entry and different allocation of responsibility for local passenger transport and investigate potential differences in data policies. The results will show whether current and planned regulatory frameworks are prepared to address the issues that ‘smart mobility’ raises. The authors conclusions aim to make public authorities on national and regional levels better equipped to plan for emerging user-centric mobility technologies. The authors do so by addressing opportunities and challenges related to governance of smart mobility including new roles and strategies for public transport authorities, resource allocation, decision-making, public-private partnerships, coordination and congruence between business and administration.
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Authors:
- Anu, Tuominen
- Auvinen, Heidi
- Fearnley, Nils
- Ydersbond, Inga Margrete
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Conference:
- European Transport Conference 2019
- Location: Dublin , Ireland
- Date: 2019-10-9 to 2019-10-11
- Publication Date: 2019
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: European Transport Conference 2019
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Data management; Governance; Literature reviews; Market assessment; Mobility applications; Policy; Public private partnerships; Shared mobility; Sustainable transportation; Technological innovations
- Geographic Terms: Nordic Countries
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01753726
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 29 2020 11:19AM