Abstract
In cities today, the digitalization of mobility is one of the most crucial tools that link each single mobility service providers (e.g., ride sharing, public transportation, air travel, etc.) to users. Based on the smart pedestrian network model, the purpose of this study is to initially provide the requirements towards the digitalization of a pedestrian network model and subsequently to draft an institutional framework towards the effective implementation and management of pedestrian mobility that will develop/create a pedestrian network as a new structure in the city. The methodology is applied in three phases, with three separate approaches: “desk approach” for a data gathering standard that is knowledge-based and connected to walkability; a “digitalization approach” for citizen and stakeholder participation in policy co-creation; and a “business approach”. A business approach is defined as a set of operations that takes one or more types of input and produces a customer-valued outcome. In this case, customers are citizens and the business approach by applying a digital system is assessing policies and finding/defining an optimized combination of shared applicable/effective policies to implement the pedestrian network. By boosting an innovative linkage of these three phases, digitalization of the pedestrian network has great potential to improve the walkability planning process and therefore to create more sustainable and livable urban spaces.
Highlights
Since the turn of the millennium, human activities have led to a transformation of landscapes and territories, changes in ecology and their interconnections, as well as enormous scientific and technological progress [1,2]
The present study aims to identify a digital urban planning process related to walkability in the city that transfers to other cities and is capable enough to improve: (a) accounting for walkability measures appropriate to the specific city culture, structure, and their likely development; (b) considering and linking all significant stakeholders in the planning process; and (c) integrating behavioral, technical, operational, organizational, and financial issues
Whereas prior studies tend to reflect integrating digital aspects into the urban planning process, this paper considers the converse, i.e., integrating features of urban planning into a digital system model for a pedestrian network
Summary
Since the turn of the millennium, human activities have led to a transformation of landscapes and territories, changes in ecology and their interconnections, as well as enormous scientific and technological progress [1,2]. The walking and urban systems are part of the same space whose integrated management is a condition of the sustainability of territories and cities. Stakeholders as urban authorities provide more significant leverage for handling digital system planning processes than national authorities, and they often have better expertise and awareness of the local environment and the implementation of efficient digital policy for the area [6,7,8,9,10]. Urban digital system planning is not a distinct field, but rather an umbrella term that covers everything from technical substitution in digital urban planning to urban space. Individual planning procedures may come up with distinct and often opposing policies, resulting in a less effective influence on cities in terms of achieving climate targets and decreasing coordination
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